🫑 bell pepper Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the bell pepper Emoji 🫑 Mean?

A glossy red bell pepper with the classic bumpy, lobed bottom and a small green stem on top — the bell pepper emoji joined the keyboard in 2021 after years of demand from cooking content creators who wanted to distinguish sweet peppers from spicy ones. Most platforms render it red, though some show variations toward orange or yellow. Texters use it for cooking content (stuffed peppers, fajitas, stir-fries, sheet-pan dinners), Mediterranean and Mexican cuisine posts, and farmers-market hauls.

Healthy-eating, low-calorie, and veggie-prep content adopts it constantly. Beyond food, the bell pepper occasionally gets used for color-coordination posts in red-themed content. Some chefs and recipe creators use it in food-styling photography because of its bold sculptural shape.

The crisp, sweet, no-heat reference makes it the friendlier counterpart to the hot pepper emoji for non-spicy dishes. Added to Unicode 13.1 in 2020 (released widely in 2021), the bell pepper was part of a thoughtful produce expansion that included the olive and other long-requested vegetables filling visible gaps.