bell pepper

🫑

bell pepper

Represents bell peppers — colorful, crunchy, and healthy. It’s often used in cooking posts, salad pics, or to show variety and freshness.

  • You’re meal-prepping for the week and want to flex your veggies.

    color-coded and ready to go 🫑🫛🥕💚

Unicode
U+1FAD1
Variant status
Fully-qualified
Emoji version
E13.0
Cross-cultural

In Japanese chats, 🫑 (ピーマン) usually refers to the green bell pepper — a common veggie in home-cooked meals and school lunches. It’s slightly bitter, so it often carries a cute “kids hate it but it’s healthy” vibe. Sometimes paired with 🍆 in cooking posts (e.g. summer stir-fry).

Heads-up

🫑 is safe in nearly all contexts — though note that in Japanese, “ピーマン” can subtly imply “plain / unexciting” in jokes (like “ピーマンみたいな性格” = bland personality).

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