Botanically a fruit but treated like a vegetable in every kitchen, the tomato emoji is a round red tomato with a green stem. It's used for cooking, salads, and pasta sauce, and it echoes the old theatrical tradition of pelting a bad performance with rotten tomatoes — the same instinct behind the movie-review site named after it.
What 🍅 means
A round, red fruit (yes, tomato is a fruit) with a small green stalk at the top that grows out of a tiny dent. The character is designed with a glaze over the top skin, which is not present on all platforms.
The 🍅 Tomato emoji signifies versatility, given the numerous uses, benefits, and forms it can take. It can also suggest festivities, health, organic living, farming, and sensuality to a certain extent as well.
How and when to use it
- Tomatoes carry out a very desirable shade of red. Hence, going with the color here, you can use 🍅 while sharing pictures that have it; for instance, it can be a tomato-red car, shoes, lip color, dress, etc.
- La Tomatina!! If you're sharing information about the festival or just pictures or videos from the celebration, then, you ought to use 🍅 in those post captions.
- Sharing anything edible with loads of tomato or only tomato in it? Like special homemade tomato ketchup, a tomato loaded pizza, anything, you can use 🍅 in the captions.
- If you and your buddy, your significant other, or your kid dressed up as tomatoes for any dress event, and you're sharing pictures of the same, use 🍅 in those post captions as well!
- Besides tomatoes also express sensuality. Bearing that in mind, you can use 🍅 in any context that related to sensuality, sexuality, love, and lust. It can be photography, an art repost, a painting, anything.
Other Names
- 🍅 Love Apple
- 🍅 Tomato Fruit
- 🍅 Tomate
- 🍅 Tamatar
- 🍅 Red Fruit
- 🍅 Cherry Tomato
- 🍅 Better Boy (ahahahah)
- 🍅 Early Girl (what is happening)
- 🍅 Celebrity Tomato (these are not made up)
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-fruit
- Codepoints
U+1F345- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:tomato:- Keywords
- food, fruit, tomato, 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 — 🍅 Tomato or 🤮 Face Vomiting?
Runs with a crowd
🍅 keeps company in red emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.