Sliced to reveal its pale, seedy interior, the cucumber emoji is straightforward salad-and-pickling produce. It's used for hydrating snacks and cooling dishes, and it backs the idiom 'cool as a cucumber' for someone who stays calm and collected under pressure.
What 🥒 means
A full green cucumber with a dark outside and a lighter inside placed on a surface and sliced half-way through, such that the round pieces of cucumber lie in a slipping position one above the other.
The 🥒 Cucumber emoji signifies relaxation, rejuvenation, and the perfect and most budgetable way to beat the summer heat. It can also suggest numerous beauty tips and products that are quite prevalent in the market.
How and when to use it
- If you're referring to someone who's calm and composed irrespective of how chaotic his/her surrounding is, you can use 🥒 (cool as a cucumber, indeed). For instance, "So, there was a mini panic attack after we heard the news, but this guy seemed to be so calm about the whole thing! HOW 🥒".
- Are you posting a sultry summer picture or a video that evokes some major tropical summer vibes? Then, you may bring in 🥒 into that context.
- You can also use 🥒 while sharing pictures, videos, or recipes of cucumber-based dishes, drinks, or even pickles. For example, if you're posting a picture of a salad bowl, you can use 🥒 in the caption (if there are cucumbers in it, of course).
- 🥒 can also be used to refer to any vegetable that are various forms of cucumber too; zucchini, pickled cucumbers, etc.
- If you're sharing cucumber beauty tips or even a picture of you or your mum having some 'me time' with sliced cucumber on the eyes, you can use 🥒 in those captions too.
Other Names
- 🥒 Cuke
- 🥒 Zucchini
- 🥒 Courgette
- 🥒 Pickle
- 🥒 Gherkin
- 🥒 Cool
- 🥒 Calm Vegetable
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-vegetable
- Codepoints
U+1F952- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0
- Shortcodes
:cucumber:- Keywords
- cucumber, food, pickle, 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 — 🥒 Cucumber or 🇾🇪 Flag: Yemen?
Runs with a crowd
🥒 keeps company in green emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.