🍇 Grapes

🍇 Meaning and usage

The 🍇 emoji seems simple, but it has its own interesting characteristics. The primary meaning of this emoji is grapes (a bunch of grapes). Its usage is fairly straightforward, but there are several key contexts:

🍇 Food and Fruit: The most obvious meaning. Used in conversations about food, healthy eating, fruits, and desserts.

• Example: "I bought some sweet grapes at the market 🍇"
• Example: "I love a cheese plate with grapes 🍇"

🍇 Winemaking and Alcohol: Since grapes are the main raw material for wine, this emoji often symbolizes winemaking, wine tastings, a visit to a wine store, or a bar.

• Example: "Want to go to a winery this weekend? 🍇 -> 🍷"
• Example (indirect): "We made some excellent wine this year 🍇"

🍇 Healthy lifestyle (HLS): Grapes are a symbol of a healthy snack, rich in vitamins and antioxidants.

• Example: "My perfect snack is yogurt and grapes 🍇"

🍇 Seasonality (late summer/fall): Since grape season in the Northern Hemisphere is late summer and fall, the emoji can be associated with this time of year, the harvest, and the joys of the garden.

• Example: "The grapes are ripe at the dacha, it's real autumn! 🍇"

🍇 Metaphor of Abundance: A bunch of grapes, consisting of many berries, has historically been a symbol of abundance, fertility and wealth (remember at least biblical stories or ancient Greek myths).

How emoji 🍇 came to be

1. Japanese Origin: Like the vast majority of original emoji, 🍇 was created in Japan in the late 1990s. Grapes are a popular and beloved fruit in the country.
2. Unicode: The Grapes emoji was approved by the Unicode Consortium as part of the Unicode 6.0 standard in 2010 and was assigned codepoint U+1F347.
3. Design: The emoji design strives to be as recognizable as possible across platforms: a purple-lilac bunch of grapes with a green leaf. However, the berry shades and shapes may vary slightly across Apple, Google, Samsung, and other vendors.

Interesting facts about 🍇

• Color matters: Although green grapes exist, the 🍇 emoji is almost always  dark purple. This is because this image is more classic and recognizable for the "bunch of grapes" concept. There is no specific emoji for green grapes.
• Symbol of luxury: In ancient Rome and other empires, grapes and wine were symbols of status, luxury, and the good life. This connotation sometimes persists today.
• Popularity in nicknames: Emoji 🍇 is sometimes used in girls' nicknames and bios to convey the image of a sweet, juicy, and cheerful nature.
• Don't confuse with 🫐: Sometimes users may confuse the 🍇 (bunch of grapes) emoji with the 🫐 (blueberry) emoji. However, blueberries are depicted as individual small berries, not as a bunch.
• The "Wine Mom" meme: In Western culture, the emoji 🍇 (along with 🍷) has become part of the "Wine Mom" image—an ironic stereotype of a mom who unwinds with a glass of wine after a hard day.

🍇 is an emoji that primarily communicates delicious food, good wine, and a healthy lifestyle. It's a simple, positive, and very "tasty" symbol that rarely causes misunderstandings and perfectly conveys its core idea.