🍆 eggplant Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the eggplant Emoji 🍆 Mean?

Long, glossy, deep purple, with a green stem-and-cap on top — the eggplant emoji is the most infamous double-entendre on the entire keyboard. While it technically represents the vegetable (and looks particularly like a Japanese nasu eggplant variety in most renderings), its phallic shape has made it the universal emoji for male anatomy in flirty and sexual texting. Drop one in a DM and the meaning is clear.

Texters use it constantly for sexting, innuendo, dating-app banter, and any context involving sexual energy. It's typically paired with the peach (butt), water droplets (intimacy), or tongue emoji for fuller suggestive language. Beyond the wink-wink usage, it does still get pulled into cooking content for actual eggplant dishes like baba ganoush, eggplant parm, ratatouille, and Mediterranean-cuisine posts — but those uses are vastly outnumbered by the suggestive ones.

Some platforms have considered modifying the design to be less suggestive but ultimately kept it. Added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the eggplant has lived a wild double life.