🌽 ear of corn Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the ear of corn Emoji 🌽 Mean?

A bright yellow ear of corn with the husk peeled back to show the kernels in neat rows, leafy green husk fanning out at the sides — the ear of corn emoji captures the cookout staple in one summery icon. Texters use it for BBQ content, state-fair posts, Midwest pride captions, and corn-on-the-cob photos at backyard parties. It's huge in posts about US Midwest states like Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas, where corn farming is a defining industry.

Mexican street corn (elote) recipes, popcorn references, and cornbread baking content all pull it in. Beyond literal food meaning, the corn emoji has picked up a major slang use as a coded reference to adult content — "corn" being an alternative for the word that rhymes with born, used to evade platform moderation. TikTok and Twitter accounts use it constantly in that role, often paired with the corn-syrup or kettle-corn icons.

Added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the corn emoji has been doing wholesome BBQ duty for over a decade and adult-content code duty more recently.