Recently added to close a gap in the produce lineup, this rounded reddish-purple root comes with leafy greens still attached. It's meant to cover beets, turnips, radishes, and similar produce that never had an emoji of their own — fairly niche, mostly used by gardeners, cooks, and farmers'-market posts that needed something more specific than a plain potato or carrot.
What means
A plump root vegetable — most vendors draw a beet or turnip with leafy greens still attached — fresh from the soil. The Root Vegetable emoji rounds out the produce aisle for everything that grows downward: beets, turnips, radishes, and their underground cousins.
It landed with Emoji 16.0 in September 2024, to the delight of gardeners, cooks, and anyone who'd been borrowing 🥕 Carrot for every root crop conversation.
How and when to use it
- Garden updates and harvest posts are its home turf: "First out of the ground today — borscht incoming."
- Use it in recipes, farmers-market hauls, and seasonal-eating content alongside 🥕 and 🥔. "Roasted with feta might be the best thing I've made all month."
- It's also a gentle way to celebrate humble, under-appreciated things: "Not flashy, just reliable — total energy."
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-vegetable
- Codepoints
U+1FADC- Emoji version
- Emoji 16.0
- Shortcodes
:root_vegetable:Slack- Keywords
- beet, food, garden, radish, root, salad, turnip, vegetable, vegetarian
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 — Root Vegetable or 🤔 Thinking Face?