A plain, uncracked egg, oval and pale, sitting there before anyone's decided whether to fry it, boil it, or bake with it. It covers breakfast and baking prep, and gets used for fragility or potential, something still forming, an idea not hatched yet, a plan that could still go any direction at all.
What 🥚 means
An oval-shaped structure which a white outer shell, mostly referring to a chicken's egg that is also savored as a universal source of protein. On some platforms, this emoji is designed with a brownish cover.
The 🥚 Egg emoji signifies a lot of things. It can suggest breakfast, the various forms of eating egg, eggs from different birds, or sometimes, it can also refer to ovulation and fertility, in all mammals. Besides, this emoji can also signify infancy or a sense of being shelled within a comfort zone.
How and when to use it
- 🥚 can be used to refer to eggs belonging to a variety of species; mammals, birds, reptiles, etc. Although it does look like a chicken egg, this emoji fits in other categories as there aren't emojis for those.
- Use 🥚 in the contexts of Easter! #eastereggs. You can also use this emoji in similar festive contexts, such as 'Egg Day'.
- Generally, eggs signify being wrapped up in a zone of comfort. So, if you're referring to someone who doesn't want to get out of their little eggshell, then you can use 🥚.
- If you're feeling like an egg, and you're texting your bestie about it or putting up a social media story of the same, then 🥚 is a given (feeling like an egg = feeling fragile). It's alright, we all feel ugly vulnerable sometimes.
- Now, since 🥚 can also suggest ovulation or fertility, this emoji can be used in related conversations as well. For instance, "Babe, get a bottle of wine, tonight's gonna be a long night 🥚 ❤️" (use other expressive emojis to show what exactly you're feeling apart from aggressive ovulation 🙂).
Other Names
- 🥚 Chicken Egg
- 🥚 Bird Egg
- 🥚 White Egg (or not, based on the platform)
- 🥚 Nucleus
- 🥚 Ovum
- 🥚 Ovulation
- 🥚 Farm Eggs
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-prepared
- Codepoints
U+1F95A- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0
- Shortcodes
:egg:- Keywords
- breakfast, egg, food
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 — 🥚 Egg or 4️⃣ Keycap: 4?
Runs with a crowd
🥚 keeps company in easter emojis and food emojis and white emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.