🍅 Tomato

Code Points: U+1F345

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🍅 Emoji Meaning

The 🍅 tomato emoji has a few popular meanings, depending on context:

  • Literal Tomato: Most simply, it represents the fruit itself. This is common in discussions about food, gardening, recipes, or grocery shopping.
  • Throwing Tomatoes (Disapproval/Rejection): Historically, rotten tomatoes were thrown at poorly received stage performances. The emoji can be used online to express dislike, disapproval, or rejection of something, like a bad idea, a disliked person, or a poorly made movie. Think of it as a digital booing.
  • Flirting/Attraction (rare, specifically on TikTok): In some niche online communities, particularly TikTok, the tomato emoji has been used as a code for sexual attraction or flirting, often related to a person's perceived attractiveness. This usage is less common and can be easily misunderstood.
  • Italy/Italian Culture: Because tomatoes are heavily associated with Italian cuisine, the emoji can sometimes be used as a shorthand for Italy or Italian culture, particularly alongside other food emojis.

It's important to consider the context of the conversation to understand the intended meaning of the 🍅 tomato emoji.


Tomato Emoji Images

Here is how Tomato emoji looks like on iPhone, Android, Facebook, Messenger and X:

Food-Fruit Related Emoji

Here is a list of other emojis from the Food & Drink category, Food-Fruit subcategory: