U+1F966 "🥦" Broccoli Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🥦
U+1F966 "🥦" Broccoli is a pictographic representation of a stalk of green broccoli, complete with a thick stem and a cluster of small, rounded florets at the top. Added to the Unicode Standard in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0, this character is commonly used in digital communication to denote the vegetable itself, healthy eating, plant based diets, or the color green. It can also carry cultural associations with nutrition, veganism, or even specific internet memes and jokes about the vegetable. In text, it serves as a concise visual shorthand for food related topics and wellness.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F966 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Broccoli |
| Block | Supplemental 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 0xA5 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD66 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F966 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd66 |