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Roasted Sweet Potato Emoji 🍠

A cut length of sweet potato, purple-skinned outside with a bright yellow-orange center exposed at the slice. It's tied to yaki-imo, the roasted sweet potato sold from carts and trucks in Japan through the winter, and covers roasted or baked sweet potato as comfort food more broadly, cold-weather snacking included.

What 🍠 means

A chopped piece of sweet potato with a purplish outer cover and a visible disc of yellow insides at the top. On some platforms, this emoji has a sliced up piece in front.

The 🍠 Roasted Sweet Potato can signify numerous forms of the vegetable that is commonly consumed; fries, chips, street food, baked sweet potato, etc. Besides, it can also suggest Thanksgiving, Aljezur Sweet Potato Festival, and other such related themes/festivals.

How and when to use it

If you're sharing a Thanksgiving informal e-invite or even a social media post or repost about the festive season of gratitude, then you can use 🍠 in all those contexts.
Although the name says 'sweet potato' (keeping the roast a little neutral for now), 🍠 can be used to signify yam and other similar root or stem vegetables.
Since roasted sweet potato is a popular East Asian winter street food, 🍠 can be used in such contexts; either while discussing the weather (or other small talk), or even while setting up a chill sesh with your buddies over some roasted sweet potatoes.
Use 🍠 while sharing sweet potato (or yam) memes (cute, ain't it?).
Throwing back to the previous point, if someone's your sweet potato, ensure to use 🍠 either while saving their contact, addressing them in texts or even while posting social media pictures or videos with or of them (add other expressive emojis, because 🍠 is not the prettiest).

Other Names

🍠 Sweet Potato
🍠 Yam
🍠 Batata
🍠 Camote
🍠 Ipomoea
🍠 Kumara
🍠 Yams

The lowdown

Category: Food & Drink › food-asian
Codepoints: U+1F360
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :sweet_potato:
Keywords: food, potato, roasted, sweet

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.