🥚 egg Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the egg Emoji 🥚 Mean?

A simple white oval egg with a slightly larger bottom and rounded top — the egg emoji captures the most universally recognized breakfast staple in one minimal icon. Texters use it for breakfast and brunch content, baking posts (eggs are in everything), Easter captions, and egg-based-meal photos. Hard-boiled, deviled, scrambled, fried, and poached egg content all pull it in alongside the more specific cooking-egg emoji.

Pregnancy and fertility content adopts it heavily, sometimes referencing the actual female reproductive cell. Easter egg hunts and Easter-basket content use it constantly each spring. Beyond literal food, the egg emoji has cultural significance from the World Record Egg of 2019, a single Instagram photo of an egg that became the most-liked post in Instagram history, beating out Kylie Jenner's previous record.

"Walking on eggshells," being "egg on someone's face," and "good egg" idioms all pull it in. Easter pastel-egg content, dye-your-own-eggs DIY posts, and egg-allergy-awareness content also adopt it. Added to Unicode 9.0 in 2016.