What is the official Unicode name for the eggplant emoji?

The official Unicode name for the eggplant emoji is AUBERGINE, commonly written as “Aubergine” in quiz answers. The character is U+1F346, and its familiar image is 🍆.

Unicode uses “aubergine,” the French-derived word widely used in British and many other varieties of English, rather than “eggplant,” the more common term in American English. Unicode’s formal character names are fixed identifiers, so this naming choice remains even though emoji platforms generally display the shorter label “eggplant.”

The emoji was introduced from Japanese mobile-phone pictographs and later standardized for broad interoperability. In ordinary messages it can represent the vegetable, but internet culture often gives it a sexual meaning. That contextual use is separate from the character’s official name and its original food-related purpose.

A common mix-up is treating the displayed label as the formal Unicode name. “Eggplant” is the everyday emoji name and a keyword; AUBERGINE is the standardized character name.