Peach emoji

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. Often paired with the cherries emoji (🍒), the peach more often represents females,^{[citation needed]} more specifically the human female sex organ.^{[citation needed]}

The peach emoji as it appears on X (formerly 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

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 "impeachment", the French word "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]