Biology:Eggplant emoji

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The eggplant emoji as it appears on Twitter.

The Eggplant emoji (πŸ†), also known by its Unicode name of Aubergine, is an emoji featuring a purple eggplant. Social media users have noted the emoji's phallic appearance and often use it as a euphemistic or suggestive icon during sexting conversations, to represent a penis.

Development and usage history

The eggplant emoji was originally included in proprietary emoji sets from SoftBank Mobile and au by KDDI.[1] When Apple released the first iPhone in 2007, there was an emoji keyboard intended for Japanese users only,[2] which encoded them using SoftBank's Private Use Area scheme.[3] 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.[2]

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".[4] In 2011, Apple made the emoji keyboard a standard iOS feature worldwide.[2] Global popularity of emojis then surged in the early to mid-2010s.[5] The eggplant emoji has been included in the Unicode Technical Standard for emoji (UTS #51) since its first edition (Emoji 1.0) in 2015.[4]

Character information
Preview Template:Charmap/showcharTemplate:Charmap/showcharTemplate:Charmap/showcharTemplate:Charmap/showchar
Unicode name AUBERGINE
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 127814 0 0 0 U+1F346
UTF-8 0 159 141 134 0 0 0 Template:UTF-8/4 9F 8D 86 00 00 00
UTF-16 55356 57158 0 0 0 D83C DF46 0000 0000 0000
GB 18030 Template:GB18030 Template:GB18030 Template:GB18030 Template:GB18030 Template:GB18030 Template:GB18030 Template:GB18030 Template:GB18030
Numeric character reference 🍆��� 🍆���
7-bit JIS (au by KDDI)[1] 121 112 79 70
Emoji shortcode[6] :eggplant:
Google substitute string[7] [γƒŠγ‚Ή]

Popularity on social media and cultural impact

The "aubergine" or "eggplant" emoji is commonly used to represent a penis in sexting conversations.[8][9] This usage has been noted to be common, particularly in the United States,[10][11] as well as in Canada.[12] In line with the eggplant emoji's common usage in sexual contexts, Emojipedia noted that the emoji is popularly paired with the peach emoji (πŸ‘), which is often used to represent buttocks[13] or female genitalia.[14]

The emoji was used as a reference to penis on Twitter as early as 2011.[8][15] By the mid-2010s, online magazine outlets wrote about how the emoji's usage in sexual contexts morphed society's connotations of the eggplant "from an innocuous vegetable to America's favorite shorthand for a throbbing cock."[12][16] Slate writer Amanda Hess stated that "the eggplant has risen to become America's dominant phallic fruit."[11] Writing for Cosmopolitan, Kathryn Lindsay stated that "this simple, previously neglected vegetable rocketed into stardom in a matter of years, thanks to our collective decision to deem it the universal symbol for dick."[16]

In 2018, Dictionary.com became the first major reference to add explanations for emojis,[14] although these explanations are only included on the editorial section of the website.[17]

The eggplant emoji has been referenced by popular culture numerous times. In 2017, Netflix won a bidding war to distribute a film titled The Eggplant Emoji.[18] The film was ultimately renamed The Package. In 2019, the cosmetics retailer Lush sold bath bombs resembling the eggplant emoji for Valentine's Day.[19] The company expanded their eggplant and peach emoji-themed product line the following year.[20]

Reception

As early as 2013, online media outlets have commented on the eggplant emoji's resemblance to a penis, with Complex listing it as one of "10 emojis to send while sexting."[21]

In April 2015, Instagram released a feature allowing users to hashtag emojis.[22] Shortly after, the platform banned the hashtag "πŸ†", as well as any references to "eggplant" from its search function.[22][23] Later in 2019, Facebook and Instagram both banned using the eggplant or peach emojis alongside "sexual statements about being horny."[24]

In 2016, the eggplant emoji's widespread usage as sexual innuendo led the American Dialect Society to vote it as the "Most Notable Emoji" of 2015.[8][25]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter. "Emoji Symbols: Background Dataβ€”Background data for Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10132-emojidata.pdf. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Cocozza, Paula (November 17, 2015). "Crying with laughter: how we learned how to speak emoji". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/17/crying-with-laughter-how-we-learned-how-to-speak-emoji. 
  3. ↑ Emojipedia. "Apple iPhone OS 2.2". Emojipedia. https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2/. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "πŸ† Eggplant". Emojipedia. https://emojipedia.org/aubergine/. Retrieved March 18, 2019. 
  5. ↑ "Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is…". Oxford Dictionaries Blog. November 16, 2015. https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2015/#:~:text=Oxford%20Word%20of%20the%20Year%202015%20%7C%20Oxford%20Languages&text=That's%20right%20%E2%80%93%20for%20the%20first,know%20it%20by%20other%20names.. 
  6. ↑ JoyPixels. "Emoji Alpha Codes". Emoji Toolkit. https://github.com/joypixels/emoji-toolkit/tree/master/extras/alpha-codes. 
  7. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named gmoji
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Eggplant emoji". Dictionary.com. February 28, 2018. https://www.dictionary.com/e/emoji/eggplant-emoji/. Retrieved March 17, 2019. 
  9. ↑ Godoy, Maria (April 10, 2015). "Cooking With Emoji: We're Taking Eggplant Back From The Bros". NPR. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/04/10/398128123/cooking-with-emoji-we-re-taking-eggplant-back-from-the-bros. Retrieved March 18, 2019. 
  10. ↑ Bromwich, Jonah Engel (October 21, 2015). "How Emojis Find Their Way to Phones". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/technology/how-emojis-find-their-way-to-phones.html. Retrieved March 17, 2019. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Hess, Amanda (April 3, 2015). "Move Over, Banana". Slate. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/users/2015/04/eggplant_rising_how_the_purple_fruit_surpassed_the_banana_as_the_most_phallic.html. Retrieved March 18, 2019. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Hay, Mark (April 25, 2017). "We're Going to Ruin the Eggplant Emoji for You Now". Tonic. Vice Media. https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/bme57w/eggplant-emoji-and-eggplant-deformity-penis-fracture. Retrieved March 18, 2019. 
  13. ↑ Kircher, Madison Malone (December 16, 2016). "Very Official Study Finds Peach Emoji Most Often Paired With Eggplant". Intelligencer. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/12/what-does-peach-emoji-mean-its-a-butt.html. Retrieved March 18, 2019. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Nazim, Hafeezah (March 7, 2018). "It's Confirmed: The Eggplant Emoji Symbolizes A Penis". Nylon. https://nylon.com/articles/dictionary-emojis-explained-eggplant-penis. Retrieved March 18, 2019. 
  15. ↑ Zimmer, Ben (May 2016). "Among the New Words". American Speech 91 (2): 200–225. doi:10.1215/00031283-3633118. https://www.academia.edu/26580305. Retrieved December 21, 2021. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Lindsay, Kathryn (August 5, 2016). "17 Times the Eggplant Emoji Was Too Real". Cosmopolitan. https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a62315/eggplant-too-real/. Retrieved March 18, 2019. 
  17. ↑ Steinmetz, Katy (March 6, 2018). "A Major Dictionary Has Officially Added Emoji". Time (magazine). https://time.com/5186512/emoji-dictionary/?amp;utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&. Retrieved December 21, 2021. 
  18. ↑ Kit, Borys (January 26, 2017). "Netflix Wins Bidding War for 'Eggplant Emoji' From Ben Stiller, 'Workaholics' Creators (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/netflix-wins-bidding-war-eggplant-emoji-ben-stiller-workaholics-creators-968990/. Retrieved December 21, 2021. 
  19. ↑ Krause, Amanda (January 4, 2019). "Lush fans are losing it over a new Valentine's Day bath bomb that looks like the eggplant emoji". https://www.insider.com/lush-eggplant-emoji-bath-bomb-valentines-day-2019-1. Retrieved December 21, 2021. 
  20. ↑ Bradford, Tayler (January 9, 2020). "Eggplant and peach-emoji bath products have arrived". New York Post. https://nypost.com/2020/01/09/eggplant-and-peach-emoji-bath-products-have-arrived/. Retrieved December 22, 2021. 
  21. ↑ Gallagher, Brenden (May 10, 2013). "10 Emojis to Send While Sexting". Complex. https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/05/10-emojis-to-send-while-sexting/adorable-whale. Retrieved March 18, 2019. 
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Willett, Megan (July 6, 2015). "There's an easy way to hack Instagram's ban on the 'offensive' eggplant emoji hashtag". Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/use-eggplant-emoji-on-instagram-2015-7. Retrieved March 18, 2019. 
  23. ↑ Goldman, David (April 29, 2015). "Instagram blocks 'offensive' eggplant emoji hashtag". CNN. https://money.cnn.com/2015/04/29/technology/eggplant-instagram-offensive/. Retrieved March 18, 2019. 
  24. ↑ Street, Mikelle (October 23, 2019). "Facebook and Instagram Are Censoring 'Horny' Emojis". Out. https://www.out.com/tech/2019/10/23/facebook-and-instagram-are-censoring-horny-emojis. Retrieved December 21, 2021. 
  25. ↑ "2015 Word of the Year is singular "they"". American Dialect Society. January 8, 2016. https://www.americandialect.org/2015-word-of-the-year-is-singular-they. Retrieved March 18, 2019. 



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