🍅 tomato Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the tomato Emoji 🍅 Mean?

Plump, round, deep red, with a small green leafy crown on top — the tomato emoji captures the world's most famous "is-it-a-fruit-or-a-vegetable?" produce in one cheerful icon. (Botanically a fruit, culinarily a vegetable.) Texters use it for cooking content, pizza and pasta posts, garden harvest photos, BLT sandwich captions, and Italian cuisine references. Home gardeners love dropping it under photos of their backyard tomato plants, especially heirloom varieties. Bloody Mary cocktail recipes, gazpacho content, and bruschetta photos all pull it in.

Beyond food, the tomato has cultural baggage: it's the iconic prop for throwing at bad performances, and theater-meme posts use it for that purpose. La Tomatina, the giant tomato-throwing festival in Spain, gets tagged with it every August. "Rotten Tomatoes" reviews of films sometimes get marked with it.

Added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the tomato has been a versatile workhorse for culinary, garden, and meme content for over a decade now. Bright, juicy, and instantly understood across every language and platform.