🥦 means broccoli, and people use it to talk about vegetables, healthy eating, diets and cooking. The Apple artwork shows a dark green broccoli head with bumpy florets on a light green stalk.

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The broccoli emoji is mostly literal and light in tone. People send it for meals, grocery lists, gym diets and "eat your veggies" jokes. It often stands for healthy food in general, so it appears in fitness posts, meal prep photos and diet talk. It can also be playful, for example when teasing someone who hates vegetables or a kid who will not eat greens. Some people use it to describe big, fluffy curly hair that looks like broccoli, usually as a light joke.
It usually means healthy food or something green on the menu. Friends also use it to joke about eating clean or dieting.
Meal prep done 🥦🍗
Diet starts Monday, I promise 🥦
Mom made me eat broccoli again 🥦😩
Need to buy 🥦 and eggs on the way home
| 🥦 vs 🥬 | The leafy green emoji shows lettuce or cabbage leaves, while 🥦 shows a broccoli head with florets. |
|---|---|
| 🥦 vs 🥗 | The salad emoji shows a full bowl of greens, while 🥦 is a single vegetable. |
| Name | broccoli |
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| Codepoints | U+1F966 |
| Category | Food & Drink |
| Keywords | cabbage, wild |
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🥦 means broccoli, and people use it to talk about vegetables, healthy eating, diets and cooking. The Apple artwork shows a dark green broccoli head with bumpy florets on a light green stalk.
No widely used hidden meaning. It almost always means broccoli, vegetables or healthy eating, and sometimes jokes about curly hair.
It is not a romantic signal. It usually means they are talking about food, a diet or the gym.
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