The Peach emoji (🍑) is a fruit emoji depicting a pinkish-orange peach. The emoji is noted for its resemblance to human buttocks or the vulva, owing to the center crease, and is consequently frequently used as a euphemism for such on social media. Often paired with the eggplant emoji (🍆), the peach more often represents female.
The peach emoji was originally included in proprietary emoji sets from au by KDDI. [1] As part of a set of characters sourced from SoftBank Mobile, au by KDDI, and NTT Docomo emoji sets, the peach emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010. [2] Global popularity of emojis then surged in the early to mid-2010s. [3] The peach emoji has been included in the Unicode Technical Standard for emoji (UTS #51) since its first edition (Emoji 1.0) in 2015. [2]
Preview | 🍑 | |
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Unicode name | PEACH | |
Encodings | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 127825 | U+1F351 |
UTF-8 | 240 159 141 145 | F0 9F 8D 91 |
UTF-16 | 55356 57169 | D83C DF51 |
GB 18030 | 148 57 183 57 | 94 39 B7 39 |
Numeric character reference | 🍑 |
🍑 |
Shift JIS ( au by KDDI) [4] | 243 250 | F3 FA |
7-bit JIS (au by KDDI) [1] | 122 124 | 7A 7C |
Emoji shortcode [5] | :peach: | |
Google name (pre-Unicode) [6] | PEACH | |
CLDR text-to-speech name [7] | peach | |
Google substitute string [6] | [モモ] |
The peach emoji is commonly used to represent buttocks or even female genitalia in sexting conversations. [8] [9] [10] This usage has been noted to be common in the United States. [11]
In line with the peach emoji's common usage in sexual contexts, Emojipedia noted that the emoji is popularly paired with the eggplant emoji (🍆), which is often used to represent a penis. [12]
During the impeachment proceedings against President Trump in 2019, the peach emoji was used to render "impeachment" as "im🍑ment" by Trump opposers. [13] [14] [15] The Christian Science Monitor noted that "peach" and "impeachment" are not etymologically related. [16]
In 2015, Vice claimed that the peach emoji is a "leading contender" for a vulva emoji. [17] In 2021, The Verge stated that peach emoji joined together with new bubbles emoji will be "great", [18] while Cosmopolitan ranked the peach emoji as the 11th "horniest emoji". [19]
In 2016, Apple Inc. brought back the peach emoji and attempted to redesign the emoji to less resemble buttocks; [20] later some fans praised the emoji's comeback, [21] but this was mostly met with fierce backlash in beta testing and Apple reversed its decision by the time it went live to the public. [22] [23] In April 2019, Facebook and Instagram both banned using the eggplant or peach emojis alongside sexual statements about "being horny". [24]