🥦 broccoli Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the broccoli Emoji 🥦 Mean?

A bushy green floret on a sturdy stalk — the broccoli emoji captures the world's most polarizing vegetable in one tidy little icon. The dense crown of dark-green florets above a pale green-white stalk reads instantly across every platform. Texters use it for healthy-eating content, dinner-plate photos, kid-meal posts, and vegetable-prep captions.

It's a major part of "eat your vegetables" memes and parenting jokes about picky eaters refusing broccoli on their plates. Stir-fry, roasted-veggie, and sheet-pan dinner content adopts it heavily. Beyond food, broccoli has surprisingly picked up coded slang meaning as a stand-in for cannabis in some communities, alongside the herb and tree emojis — the bushy green floret shape lends itself to that comparison.

Salt Bae's broccoli has become its own meme. Toddler-meal content uses it for the "tree" reference parents use when introducing kids to it. Added to Unicode 10.0 in 2017, broccoli joined the keyboard during a wave of vegetable-emoji additions.