🥕 Carrot

🥕 Carrot is one of the vegetables in Unicode's Food & Drink group. In practice it comes up around food and vegetable.

You can drop 🥕 into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. On SmileyZone it is filed under Food and Drink. The character has been part of the standard since 2016 (Emoji 3.0). Its code point is U+1F955.

• 🥕 on its own already flags the topic: food.
• Fits messages about food and vegetable.
• Often seen near 🥔 Potato, 🌽 Ear of Corn and 🍆 Eggplant.

Carrots were originally purple or white; the orange variety was bred in the seventeenth-century Netherlands – the popular story that this honoured the House of Orange is charming but unsupported.

The claim that carrots improve night vision comes from British wartime propaganda, intended to conceal the fact that the Royal Air Force had radar.

• 🥕🥔 – Carrot and Potato
• 🥕🫑 – Carrot with Bell Pepper
• 🥕🥑 – Carrot plus Avocado
• 🥕🌽 – Carrot and Ear of Corn
• 🥕🍆 – Carrot with Eggplant
• 🥕🥦 – Carrot plus Broccoli
• 🥕🧄 – Carrot and Garlic
• 🥕🥬 – Carrot with Leafy Green

Easy to mix up with 🥔 Potato, 🌽 Ear of Corn or 🍆 Eggplant. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.