'Carrot and stick' has its emoji match: a single orange carrot, roots and leafy green tops intact. It's shorthand for healthy snacking and rabbit food, the reward end of that idiom, plus the old claim that carrots are good for your eyesight.
What 🥕 means
A long veggie that's a broad at the top and tapers to a rounded end at the bottom. It also has a couple of frilled leaves on the broader side indicating that it's a root vegetable.
The 🥕 Carrot emoji signifies nutrition, gardening, weight-loss food and even bettering eyesight upon consumption. It can also refer to bunnies (remember Bugs Bunny?) and may even have explicit significances.
How and when to use it
- Building upon the 'bunny' point, you can use 🥕 while posting nostalgic Looney Tunes pictures or even while sharing pictures or videos of you dressed up as a bunny (it can be a bunny hairband or even the classic playboy outfit).
- The next time you can post anything related to carrots as an ingredient; carrot cakes, carrot halwa, carrot juice, etc, you can use 🥕 in such captions or even within a text message.
- Like many fruit and vegetable emojis, carrots too, have a dirty side to them - 🥕 can refer to the male genitalia or even sex toys (sometimes, they can be literal too).
- Use 🥕 while posting or reposting pictures of carrots (something more general and implicit) - it can be fresh produce, a carrot farm, a refreshing salad, anything.
- Furthermore, if you're sharing a post where an animal is munching on some carrots, you can use 🥕 in those captions as well.
Other Names
- 🥕 Orange Carrot
- 🥕 Black Carrot (orange is the new black, heh?)
- 🥕 Baby Carrots
- 🥕 Red Carrots
- 🥕 White Carrot
- 🥕 24 Carrot Health (puns intended)
- 🥕 Campbell Island Carrot
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-vegetable
- Codepoints
U+1F955- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0
- Shortcodes
:carrot:- Keywords
- carrot, food, vegetable
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🥕 Carrot or 🏎️ Racing Car?
Runs with a crowd
🥕 keeps company in orange emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.