A knobby, tan-skinned piece of fresh ginger is the ginger root emoji, used for cooking and tea, from a stir-fry to a mug brewed for an upset stomach. Its warming, spicy reputation also makes it a go-to for cold-and-flu-season self-care posts.
What 🫚 means
A knobbly hand of ginger root, tan and branching. The 🫚 Ginger Root emoji (Emoji 15.0, September 2022) is for cooks, tea-drinkers, and home remedies — the ingredient that shows up the moment anyone catches a cold.
It also gets playful use for all things "ginger", including redhead pride, which the emoji keyboard had never covered before.
How and when to use it
- Cooking and recipe content: "Secret to the stir-fry: triple the 🫚 always."
- Cold-season survival kit: "Lemon, honey, 🫚 tea, and refusing to accept I'm sick."
- Redheads adopted it immediately: "🫚 gang meetup at the family reunion."
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-vegetable
- Codepoints
U+1FADA- Emoji version
- Emoji 15.0
- Shortcodes
:ginger_root:- Keywords
- beer, ginger, health, herb, natural, root, spice
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 — 🫚 Ginger Root or 🪒 Razor?