What ๐ซ means
Usually literal beans, a dish made with them, or coffee beans.
Most of the time, the emoji points straight to the kitchen or dinner table: a pot of chili, burritos, refried beans, rice and beans, baked beans on toast, or soup. Major platforms draw a few curved, reddish-brown beans that look like kidney or pinto beans, though the details vary by phone. Because Unicode has no separate symbol for roasted coffee beans, coffee lovers can pair ๐ซ with to talk about a fresh bag of whole beans or a morning brew.
When a message has nothing to do with eating or drinking, the surrounding words steer the meaning in two very different directions. Next to a question or a pair of eyes, it acts out the English idiom "spill the beans" โ someone is nudging you to hand over a secret or tell the whole story. Sent bare in a casual chat with no meal or gossip on the table, it most likely falls back on the classic joke about beans and gas.
Friendly and everyday for food and coffee; strictly casual when used for gossip or bathroom humour.
Dropped alone into a work chat without a clear lunch or coffee topic, it can read like a fart joke.
Part of collections
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsLiteral beans, chili, burritos, rice and beans, or another bean dish.
Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
5Worth knowing
- Despite being a staple in many cuisines around the world, beans had no emoji of their own until 2021; the proposal made its case with dishes like refried beans, baked beans and chili.
Questions people ask
2Is there a separate coffee bean emoji?
No. People use ๐ซ alongside when they mean roasted coffee beans โ the original Unicode proposal for ๐ซ suggested that very pairing.
Is there a separate kidney bean or black bean emoji?
No. ๐ซ is the generic beans emoji, so it covers kidney, pinto, black and navy beans alike.
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How to type or find ๐ซ
- Also called
- kidney beans ยท pinto beans ยท coffee beans
- Search it as
- bean ยท kidney bean ยท pinto bean ยท black bean ยท legume ยท chili ยท coffee bean ยท spill the beans
- Type it as
- :beans:
- Around since
- 2021 ยท Emoji 14.0
- Shows up on
- Every phone ยท iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux
:beans:Common shortcode in Slack, GitHub, Discord, Mattermost and other chat apps; a few apps use a different name.🫘Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.