Glossy brown with a lighter patch where it was picked from its shell, the chestnut emoji is most at home in winter and holiday content. Think roasted chestnuts, cozy fireside imagery, and the line from the Christmas song — plus 'old chestnut,' a standing phrase for a joke or story that's been told one too many times.
What 🌰 means
An onion-shaped vegetable that has the perfect round body and a pointy tip at the top, characterized with a reddish-brown shade covering three fourth of the nut with lighter brown at the bottom.
Chestnuts have an array of incredible health benefits, building on that, the 🌰 Chestnut emoji can signify good health and strength. It can also refer to squirrels, thus suggesting characteristics of forward thinking, saving and hoarding (for a brighter future).
How and when to use it
- Since chestnuts have such a close relation to squirrels, you can use 🌰 while sharing squirrel pictures! Besides, this emoji can also be used in captions that reflect the qualities of a squirrel.
- Many times 🌰 is mistaken for a ball, it ain't one. So, refrain from using this emoji in contexts of basketball and other such sports.
- Use 🌰 while posting or reposting pictures of chestnuts (or even orchards, anything related to the nut). In fact, you can also use this emoji while referring to the color; it can be a chestnut hair color, clothes, shoes, etc.
- An instance for the previous point; if you got new hair color, you can use 🌰 in contexts like "Finally!!! The hair color of the season! 🌰 ".
- 🌰 can also be used to refer to winters and the season of hibernation.
Other Names
- 🌰 American Chestnut
- 🌰 Sweet Chestnut
- 🌰 Chinese Chestnut
- 🌰 Dwarf Chestnut
- 🌰 Horse Chestnut/European Horse Chestnut
- 🌰 Chestnut Brown
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-vegetable
- Codepoints
U+1F330- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:chestnut:- Keywords
- almond, chestnut, plant
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 — 🌰 Chestnut or 🇬🇾 Flag: Guyana?
Runs with a crowd
🌰 keeps company in brown emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.