Peach emoji
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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.
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]
| 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
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 (🍆), 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] Like English "impeachment", the French verb "empêcher" contains the substring "pêche" (which means "peach"). 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 4th "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]
