U+1F33D "🌽" Ear of Maize Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F33D "🌽" Ear of Maize is a pictographic representation of a corn cob, typically depicted with a green husk partially opened to reveal a golden yellow cob lined with rows of kernels on the right side, often with a small green stalk or silk at the top. This character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0 under the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, and it belongs to the broader Emoji 1.0 set released in 2015. In digital communication, it is widely used to signify corn as a food, agriculture, farming, or harvest imagery, and it appears across major platforms with slight variations in detail, such as the number of kernels or the shape of the husk, while consistently conveying its identity as a staple grain.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F33D
Version Added 6.0
Name Ear of Maize
Block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 🌽
HTML Hex Encoding 🌽
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83C 0xDF3D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F33D
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83c\udf3d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other
Emoji Yes
Emoji Presentation Yes
Extended Pictographic Yes