Garlic

Unicode lists 🧄 Garlic among the vegetables in the Food & Drink group. People send it when the subject is flavoring.

🧄 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Animals and Nature. The character has been part of the standard since 2019 (Emoji 12.0). Its code point is U+1F9C4.

• 🧄 on its own already flags the topic: flavoring.
• Fits messages about flavoring.
• Often seen near 🥦 Broccoli, 🥬 Leafy Green and 🧅 Onion.

Garlic is medicine, kitchen staple and protective charm at once. The idea that it repels vampires became popular through Bram Stoker’s Dracula of 1897, though it builds on older South-East European warding customs.

Some Buddhist and Hindu traditions avoid garlic as agitating to the mind, and Jain cooking dispenses with root vegetables altogether.

• 🧄🫑 – Garlic and Bell Pepper
• 🧄🌽 – Garlic with Ear of Corn
• 🧄🫘 – Garlic plus Beans
• 🧄🥦 – Garlic and Broccoli
• 🧄🥬 – Garlic with Leafy Green
• 🧄🧅 – Garlic plus Onion
• 🧄🫛 – Garlic and Pea Pod
• 🧄🥒 – Garlic with Cucumber

Easy to mix up with 🥦 Broccoli, 🥬 Leafy Green or 🧅 Onion. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.