🫘 beans Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the beans Emoji 🫘 Mean?

A small pile of plump kidney-shaped beans, usually rendered in brown, red, or tan tones — the beans emoji landed on the keyboard in 2022 after years of legume-loving cooks begging for it. The mound silhouette with visible individual beans reads clearly across platforms. Texters use it for cooking content of every legume-loving cuisine: Mexican beans-and-rice, Cajun red beans and rice, Indian dal, vegetarian chili, hummus and falafel recipes, and Mediterranean white-bean stews.

Plant-based, vegan, and high-protein nutrition content adopts it heavily. Coffee bean references also pull it in for café and barista content. "Spill the beans" gossip posts use it for the secret-revealing idiom.

Mr. Bean fans drop it for British-comedy references. The Bean (Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago) gets it occasionally too.

Vegetarian camp and budget-cooking content adopt it for the affordable-protein angle. Added to Unicode 14.0 in 2021 (released in 2022), the beans emoji finally gave legume content its own dedicated icon distinct from the peanut.