Peach emoji

The Peach emoji (๐Ÿ‘) is a fruit emoji featuring a pinkish-orange peach. The emoji is noted for its resemblance to buttocks and is consequently frequently used as a euphemism for such on social media.

The peach emoji as it appears on Twitter

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
Preview๐Ÿ‘
Unicode name PEACH
Encodingsdecimalhex
Unicode127825U+1F351
UTF-8240 159 141 145F0 9F 8D 91
UTF-1655356 57169D83C DF51
GB 18030148 57 183 5794 39 B7 39
Numeric character reference🍑🍑
Shift JIS (au by KDDI)[4]243 250F3 FA
7-bit JIS (au by KDDI)[1]122 1247A 7C
Emoji shortcode[5]:peach:
Google name (pre-Unicode)[6]PEACH
CLDR text-to-speech name[7]peach
Google substitute string[6][ใƒขใƒข]

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]

The emoji was used as a reference to buttocks including impeachment and the desire to remove the POTUS from office in general on Twitter and other social media.[12][13] In line with the peach emoji's common usage in sexual contexts, Emojipedia noted that the emoji is popularly paired with the eggplant emoji (๐Ÿ†), which is often used to represent a penis.[14] During the impeachment proceedings against President Trump in 2019, the peach emoji was used to render "impeachment" as "im๐Ÿ‘ment".[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. Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter. "Emoji Symbols: Background Dataโ€”Background data for Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols" (PDF). UTC L2/10-132.
  2. "๐Ÿ‘ Peach". Emojipedia. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
  3. "Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 isโ€ฆ". 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. 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. "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. "How Are You Supposed To Use The Peach Emoji ๐Ÿ‘?". Dictionary.com.
  13. Guardian Staff (October 2, 2019). "Peachy: the emoji that's become a political statement". the Guardian.
  14. Kircher, Madison Malone (December 16, 2016). "Very Official Study Finds Peach Emoji Most Often Paired With Eggplant". Intelligencer. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  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.
  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.
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