The Peach emoji (🍑) is a fruit emoji depicting a pinkish-orange peach. The emoji is noted for its resemblance to human buttocks or the vulva, owing to the center crease, and is consequently frequently used as a euphemism for such on social media. Often paired with the eggplant emoji (🍆), the peach more often represents female.
Development and usage history
editThe peach emoji was originally included in proprietary emoji sets from au by KDDI.[1] As part of a set of characters sourced from SoftBank Mobile, au by KDDI, and NTT Docomo emoji sets, the peach emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.[2] Global popularity of emojis then surged in the early to mid-2010s.[3] The peach emoji has been included in the Unicode Technical Standard for emoji (UTS #51) since its first edition (Emoji 1.0) in 2015.[2]
| Preview | 🍑 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | PEACH | |
| Encodings | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 127825 | U+1F351 |
| UTF-8 | 240 159 141 145 | F0 9F 8D 91 |
| UTF-16 | 55356 57169 | D83C DF51 |
| GB 18030 | 148 57 183 57 | 94 39 B7 39 |
| Numeric character reference | 🍑 |
🍑 |
| Shift JIS (au by KDDI)[4] | 243 250 | F3 FA |
| 7-bit JIS (au by KDDI)[1] | 122 124 | 7A 7C |
| Emoji shortcode[5] | :peach: | |
| Google name (pre-Unicode)[6] | PEACH | |
| CLDR text-to-speech name[7] | peach | |
| Google substitute string[6] | [モモ] | |
Popularity on social media and cultural impact
editThe peach emoji is commonly used to represent buttocks or even female genitalia in sexting conversations.[8][9][10] This usage has been noted to be common in the United States.[11]
In line with the peach emoji's common usage in sexual contexts, Emojipedia noted that the emoji is popularly paired with the eggplant emoji (🍆), which is often used to represent a penis.[12]
During the impeachment proceedings against President Trump in 2019, the peach emoji was used to render "impeachment" as "im🍑ment" by Trump opposers.[13][14][15] The Christian Science Monitor noted that "peach" and "impeachment" are not etymologically related.[16]
Reception
editIn 2015, Vice claimed that the peach emoji is a "leading contender" for a vulva emoji.[17] In 2021, The Verge stated that peach emoji joined together with new bubbles emoji will be "great",[18] while Cosmopolitan ranked the peach emoji as the 11th "horniest emoji".[19]
In 2016, Apple Inc. brought back the peach emoji and attempted to redesign the emoji to less resemble buttocks;[20] later some fans praised the emoji's comeback,[21] but this was mostly met with fierce backlash in beta testing and Apple reversed its decision by the time it went live to the public.[22][23] In April 2019, Facebook and Instagram both banned using the eggplant or peach emojis alongside sexual statements about "being horny".[24]
References
edit- ^ a b Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter. "Emoji Symbols: Background Data—Background data for Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols" (PDF). UTC L2/10-132.
- ^ a b "🍑 Peach". Emojipedia. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
- ^ "Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is…". Oxford Dictionaries Blog. November 16, 2015. Archived from the original on July 10, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
- ^ Unicode Consortium. "Emoji Sources". Unicode Character Database. Archived from the original on 2020-04-28. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
- ^ JoyPixels. "Emoji Alpha Codes". Emoji Toolkit.
- ^ a b Android Open Source Project (2009). "GMoji Raw". Skia Emoji.
- ^ Unicode, Inc. "Annotations". Common Locale Data Repository.
- ^ Schwedel, Heather (September 26, 2019). "Does the Peach Emoji Still Mean Butt, or Is It a Rallying Cry for Democracy?". Slate Magazine.
- ^ "A beginner's guide to sexting with emoji". The Daily Dot. December 27, 2016.
- ^ Nazim, Hafeezah (7 March 2018). "It's Confirmed: The Eggplant Emoji Symbolizes A Penis". Nylon.
- ^ Bromwich, Jonah Engel (October 21, 2015). "How Emojis Find Their Way to Phones". The New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
- ^ Kircher, Madison Malone (December 16, 2016). "Very Official Study Finds Peach Emoji Most Often Paired With Eggplant". Intelligencer. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
- ^ "How Are You Supposed To Use The Peach Emoji 🍑?". Dictionary.com. 19 April 2018.
- ^ Guardian Staff (October 2, 2019). "Peachy: the emoji that's become a political statement". the Guardian.
- ^ "How the sexy peach emoji joined the resistance". The Washington Times. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ^ "'Impeachment' has nothing to do with fruit". Christian Science Monitor. October 31, 2019.
- ^ "What's the Best Vagina Emoji?". www.vice.com. 6 November 2015.
- ^ Porter, Jon (September 15, 2021). "There's a new bubbles emoji that'll go just great with the peach". The Verge.
- ^ Hsieh, Carina; Smothers, Hannah; Varina, Rachel (August 11, 2021). "Yes, There's Such a Thing as Horny Emojis, and Yes, We're Going to Break Them Down for You". Cosmopolitan.
- ^ "Apple brings back the peach butt emoji". TechCrunch. 15 November 2016.
- ^ "The Peach Emoji Butt Is Back And Fans Couldn't Be Any Happier". Complex.
- ^ "Everything's peachy as Apple restores emoji's 'bum' features". the Guardian. November 16, 2016.
- ^ "Here's Why People Are Upset About the New Emoji Update". Complex.
- ^ "'Sexual' use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram". October 29, 2019.
