A pair of peanuts still in their tan, ridged shell — the peanuts emoji covers the literal snack, from ballpark food to bar bowls to peanut butter. It also backs the idiom of working 'for peanuts,' meaning barely any money at all, and doubles as handy shorthand in conversations about nut allergies.
What 🥜 means
A pair of groundnuts shaped with two pods in each while honing a brown textured outer shell. On some platforms, this emoji is shown with just one peanut.
The 🥜 Peanut emoji signifies a great source of nutrition and good cholesterol across its varied forms of usage. It can also suggest farming, agriculture, and a way of saying that someone earns very less.
How and when to use it
- If you're casually texting a close someone about your salary or ranting about how you 'earn peanuts', you can use 🥜 in such contexts.
- Use 🥜 while sharing pictures of a peanut harvest, peanut products like peanut butter, peanut oil, etc and even a peanut farm.
- If you've named someone as 'peanut' out of pure love and affection, you can use 🥜 either while saving their contact number on your phone or even in captions for pictures of them. For instance, "Meet peanut, our new Dalmatian baby 🥜 ".
- Since peanuts are also called goober, you can use 🥜 in a playful context of calling someone silly or stupid.
- Shattering all cartoon portrayal about elephants, do not use 🥜 while posting pictures or videos about them. They honestly don't like it.
- Meanwhile, you can use 🥜 while sharing pictures of other animals that love peanuts, such as blue jays, squirrels (they like peanut butter too), and monkeys as well!
Other Names
- 🥜 Groundnuts
- 🥜 Peanut
- 🥜 Earthnut
- 🥜 Goober
- 🥜 Pindar
- 🥜 Peanut Butter
- 🥜 Peanut Oil
- 🥜 Legume
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-vegetable
- Codepoints
U+1F95C- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0
- Shortcodes
:peanuts::shelled_peanut:Discord- Keywords
- food, nut, peanut, peanuts, 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 — 🥜 Peanuts or 🇵🇸 Flag: Palestinian Territories?