Eggplant Emoji
Alternate styles by Microsoft Fluent Emoji, MIT / CC BY 4.0 licensed.
What does Eggplant ๐ mean?
Part of the Food & Drink category, the Eggplant emoji sits within Vegetables. Related keywords include aubergine, vegetable.
Like the rest of the Food & Drink category, it renders slightly differently across Apple, Google, and Samsung keyboards, though the core meaning stays consistent. It's flexible enough to appear in casual texts, captions, or comments without feeling out of place. It's frequently used near emojis like Avocado and Potato, which cover similar ground.
๐ก Interesting fact: This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in Emoji version 0.6 (2010).
Eggplant ๐ meaning, explained
In texting
๐ is literally a vegetable emoji, but in practice it's widely understood as sexual innuendo -- a stand-in reference used in flirty or suggestive messages, far more often than it's used to talk about actual eggplants.
From a girl
Context decides everything here: in a cooking or grocery conversation it's literal. In a flirty one-on-one conversation, it's almost always the innuendo, and is understood as a fairly direct signal.
From a guy
Same split applies, and the innuendo reading is, if anything, slightly more commonly associated with guys sending it -- but it's understood the same way regardless of who sends it.
๐ Positive use
In a consensual, already-flirty conversation between people who both understand the reference, it's a lighthearted, low-stakes way to flirt without writing anything explicit.
โ ๏ธ Can read negatively
Sent to someone who isn't expecting or welcoming that tone, it reads as inappropriate or even harassing -- this is one of the emojis most likely to make a recipient uncomfortable if the context isn't already established.
When not to use it
Avoid it entirely in professional contexts, with anyone you don't already have an established flirty rapport with, or in any group chat where the reference could be read by people it wasn't intended for. If there's any doubt about whether it will be welcome, don't send it.
Related slang
- ๐ in a flirty context = sexual innuendo, not a literal vegetable reference
- ๐ in a cooking/grocery/recipe context = genuinely literal
Similar emojis โ how they differ
- ๐ Peach โ ๐ carries the parallel innuendo reference for a different body part -- the two are frequently used together or as a pair in the same joking context.
- ๐ฅ Fire โ ๐ฅ is a generic 'this is great/attractive' emoji with no specific innuendo -- ๐'s suggestive reading is far more pointed and specific.
How to use Eggplant ๐ in a sentence
- Texted the group chat just a photo of eggplant ๐
- Craving eggplant right now ๐
- Ordered eggplant for dinner again tonight ๐
- Nothing beats fresh eggplant on a day like this ๐
- Added eggplant to the grocery list ๐๐
Eggplant ๐ in other languages
French
aubergine
Mandarin
่ๅญ
German
Aubergine
Hindi
เคฌเฅเคเคเคจ
Japanese
ใใน
Korean
๊ฐ์ง
Portuguese
berinjela
Spanish
berenjena
Russian
ะฑะฐะบะปะฐะถะฐะฝ
Arabic
ุจุงุฐูุฌุงู
Frequently asked questions
What does the Eggplant ๐ emoji mean?
Part of the Food & Drink category, the Eggplant emoji sits within Vegetables. Related keywords include aubergine, vegetable.
How do people use the Eggplant ๐ emoji in texting?
A common way it shows up in messages: "Texted the group chat just a photo of eggplant ๐" It's generally understood the same way across most messaging apps, though tone can shift slightly depending on who's sending it.
What does Eggplant ๐ mean in texting?
๐ is literally a vegetable emoji, but in practice it's widely understood as sexual innuendo -- a stand-in reference used in flirty or suggestive messages, far more often than it's used to talk about actual eggplants.
What does it mean when a girl sends ๐?
Context decides everything here: in a cooking or grocery conversation it's literal. In a flirty one-on-one conversation, it's almost always the innuendo, and is understood as a fairly direct signal.
What does it mean when a guy sends ๐?
Same split applies, and the innuendo reading is, if anything, slightly more commonly associated with guys sending it -- but it's understood the same way regardless of who sends it.
When should you not use ๐?
Avoid it entirely in professional contexts, with anyone you don't already have an established flirty rapport with, or in any group chat where the reference could be read by people it wasn't intended for. If there's any doubt about whether it will be welcome, don't send it.
Can I download the Eggplant ๐ emoji as an image?
Yes โ this page has buttons to download Eggplant as an SVG (vector, best for scaling to any size) or a high-resolution PNG. The images come from the Twemoji design set (CC-BY 4.0), so credit is required if you reuse them elsewhere, and the exact art style may look slightly different from how this emoji renders on your own phone or computer.
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Cross-platform view of Eggplant ๐
The same emoji is drawn differently by each company. Here's how Eggplant looks across the most common platforms.
