Dirt-flecked brown skin and an unglamorous lump of a shape — the potato emoji is about as plain as produce gets. It covers comfort food from fries to mash to a baked potato, backs 'couch potato' laziness, and gets used as self-deprecating humor for an unflattering photo: 'I look like a potato in this.'
What 🥔 means
A rounded cylindrical brown vegetable just chilling there while shooting a side profile. The 🥔 Potato emoji signifies adaptability given its various edible forms, a healthy diet, and even luck and goodness. Au contraire, it can also suggest a couch potato or even something ugly 😐.
How and when to use it
- If you're feeling sick, tired, or just mentally and/or physically low, you can use 🥔 while texting you bestie or any other close one about it. For example, "Man. I just cannot make it out of bed today. My life sucks, I suck, everything around me sucks 🥔 ".
- You can also use 🥔 while referring to a couch potato (not necessarily someone who's physically unfit, rather, someone who watches lots of TV). If it's you, feel free to use this emoji in your social media profile name.
- You can also use 🥔 to signify confusion or even cluelessness. For instance, "I have no idea what just happened. Did I just zone out and maybe even take a nap while I tried understanding what she was saying? 🥔".
- In a much simpler context, 🥔 can be used in post captions while sharing pictures of fresh potatoes, baby potatoes (you know, the kind that gives you that unbridled joy), or even a potato farm.
- Since potatoes can suggest a sense of being ugly and not really desirable, 🥔 can be used while sharing a news post, a viral video, or even a sad meme that falls into the given criteria (refrain from using it for people, everyone's beautiful in their own way).
Other Names
- 🥔 Yam
- 🥔 White Potato
- 🥔 Spud
- 🥔 Sweet Potato
- 🥔 Irish Potato
- 🥔 Couch Potato
- 🥔 Murphy
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-vegetable
- Codepoints
U+1F954- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0
- Shortcodes
:potato:- Keywords
- food, potato, 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 — 🥔 Potato or 🤒 Face with Thermometer?
Runs with a crowd
🥔 keeps company in brown emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.