cucumber Emoji

The cucumber emoji represents a specific food or drink item, commonly used literally in conversation about meals and menus, or informally to signal mood, plans, or cultural/regional identity tied to that dish.

Category context: The Food & Drink category covers fruits, vegetables, prepared dishes, and beverages from cuisines around the world — a category that has expanded significantly over the years as Unicode added more culturally diverse food items beyond early Western-centric selections.

Cataloged under Food Vegetable within the Food & Drink category, cucumber is the 119th of 131 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 3 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F952.

💡 Good to know: Food emoji are commonly used in restaurant menus, delivery apps, and social media captions as a quick visual shorthand for a dish, alongside their conversational use.