The eggplant emoji as it appears on
Twitter.
The Eggplant emoji (🍆), also known by its Unicode name of Aubergine, is an emoji featuring a purple eggplant. It is one of the most commonly used emojis on social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Development and usage history
The eggplant emoji was originally included in proprietary emoji sets from SoftBank Mobile and au by KDDI. When Apple released the first iPhone in 2007, there was an emoji keyboard intended for Japanese users only, which encoded them using SoftBank's Private Use Area scheme. However, after iPhone users in the United States discovered that downloading Japanese apps allowed access to the keyboard, pressure grew to expand the availability of the emoji keyboard beyond Japan.
As part of a set of characters sourced from SoftBank, au by KDDI, and NTT Docomo emoji sets, the eggplant emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name "Aubergine". In 2011, Apple made the emoji keyboard a standard iOS feature worldwide. Global popularity of emojis then surged in the early to mid-2010s. The eggplant emoji has been included in the Unicode Technical Standard for emoji (UTS #51) since its first edition (Emoji 1.0) in 2015.
Character information
| Preview |
🍆 |
| Unicode name |
AUBERGINE |
| Encodings |
decimal |
hex |
| Unicode |
127814 |
U+1F346 |
| UTF-8 |
240 159 141 134 |
F0 9F 8D 86 |
| UTF-16 |
55356 57158 |
D83C DF46 |
| GB 18030 |
0 |
00 |
| Numeric character reference |
🍆 |
🍆 |
| Shift JIS (au by KDDI) |
243 144 |
F3 90 |
| Shift JIS (SoftBank 3G) |
249 234 |
F9 EA |
| 7-bit JIS (au by KDDI) |
121 112 |
79 70 |
| Emoji shortcode |
:eggplant: |
| Google name (pre-Unicode) |
EGGPLANT |
| CLDR text-to-speech name |
eggplant |
| Google substitute string |
[ナス] |
