Peach emoji

The peach emoji as it appears on X.

The Peach emoji (πŸ‘) 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 (πŸ†), the peach more often represents females, more specifically the human female Sex Organ.

Development and usage history

The 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]

Character information
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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] [γƒ’γƒ’]

Popularity on social media and cultural impact

The 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 (πŸ†), 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 "imπŸ‘ment" by Trump opposers.[13][14][15] The Christian Science Monitor noted that "peach" and "impeachment" are not etymologically related.[16]

Reception

In 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

  1. ^ a b Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter. "Emoji Symbols: Background Dataβ€”Background data for Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols" (PDF). UTC L2/10-132.
  2. ^ a b "πŸ‘ Peach". Emojipedia. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ Unicode Consortium. "Emoji Sources". Unicode Character Database. Archived from the original on 2020-04-28. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  5. ^ JoyPixels. "Emoji Alpha Codes". Emoji Toolkit.
  6. ^ a b Android Open Source Project (2009). "GMoji Raw". Skia Emoji.
  7. ^ Unicode, Inc. "Annotations". Common Locale Data Repository.
  8. ^ Schwedel, Heather (September 26, 2019). "Does the Peach Emoji Still Mean Butt, or Is It a Rallying Cry for Democracy?". Slate Magazine.
  9. ^ "A beginner's guide to sexting with emoji". The Daily Dot. December 27, 2016.
  10. ^ Nazim, Hafeezah (7 March 2018). "It's Confirmed: The Eggplant Emoji Symbolizes A Penis". Nylon.
  11. ^ Bromwich, Jonah Engel (October 21, 2015). "How Emojis Find Their Way to Phones". The New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
  12. ^ Kircher, Madison Malone (December 16, 2016). "Very Official Study Finds Peach Emoji Most Often Paired With Eggplant". Intelligencer. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  13. ^ "How Are You Supposed To Use The Peach Emoji πŸ‘?". Dictionary.com. 19 April 2018.
  14. ^ Guardian Staff (October 2, 2019). "Peachy: the emoji that's become a political statement". the Guardian.
  15. ^ "How the sexy peach emoji joined the resistance". The Washington Times. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  16. ^ "'Impeachment' has nothing to do with fruit". Christian Science Monitor. October 31, 2019.
  17. ^ "What's the Best Vagina Emoji?". www.vice.com. 6 November 2015.
  18. ^ Porter, Jon (September 15, 2021). "There's a new bubbles emoji that'll go just great with the peach". The Verge.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ "Apple brings back the peach butt emoji". TechCrunch. 15 November 2016.
  21. ^ "The Peach Emoji Butt Is Back And Fans Couldn't Be Any Happier". Complex.
  22. ^ "Everything's peachy as Apple restores emoji's 'bum' features". the Guardian. November 16, 2016.
  23. ^ "Here's Why People Are Upset About the New Emoji Update". Complex.
  24. ^ "'Sexual' use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram". October 29, 2019.