The page opens with Egg, U+1F95A, ready to copy. Egg emoji copy and paste covers four emoji, the fried one included; the other 45 tiles are breakfast, egg layers, egg shapes, text eggs and combos.
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Four eggs, and the fried one is called Cooking
CLDR, Unicode's search word list, files four emoji under egg: Egg, Cooking, Hatching chick and Nest with eggs. Cooking is the fried egg people look for. Its words run to frying, pan, sunny, side, up, over and easy, but never fried, so its tile here is named Cooking, the fried egg. Nothing is filed under yolk, omelette or boiled.
Old eggs, one new nest
Cooking and Hatching chick carry Emoji 0.6, the oldest label on Unicode's list, and Egg carries 3.0. Nest with eggs, from Emoji 14.0, is the newest single tile, and the goose in Goose egg is 15.0. The Shavian letter and the two hieroglyphs need a font that has them.
Tips
Search fried and seven tiles answer, the Cooking emoji first. Oval finds the four egg shapes.
The four egg shapes are text: colour the words and the egg changes too, which no emoji egg does.
A dozen is twelve eggs in one tap. Twelve dozen is a gross, and the emoji repeater prints all 144.
Questions and answers
Is there a fried egg emoji?
Yes, under another name. ๐ณ is U+1F373, and Unicode calls it Cooking. CLDR files it under egg, fry, frying and pan. It is the second tile here. No emoji is an omelette or a boiled egg; the Omelette and Egg timer combos stand in.
What does the egg emoji mean?
An egg, and breakfast. CLDR gives ๐ฅ three words: breakfast, egg and food. English hangs more on the word, and Wiktionary's senses are here as combos: Good egg for someone to be trusted, Bad egg for a rogue, Goose egg for zero.
Which came first, the chicken emoji or the egg emoji?
The chicken. ๐ carries Emoji 0.6 and ๐ฅ carries Emoji 3.0. The fried egg and the hatching chick are 0.6 too, so both beat the plain egg. Wikipedia has Plutarch posing the original question in the 1st century CE. Which came first is the combo.
Is there an egg symbol that is not an emoji?
Yes. โฌฎ is U+2B2E, black vertical ellipse, and โฌฏ, U+2B2F, is its outline. Both have been in Unicode since 5.1 and paste as text. The Shavian alphabet has a letter named egg, and the five text eggs use keyboard characters only.
๐ณCooking, the fried eggU+1F373. Unicode names it Cooking. CLDR files it under egg, fry, frying and pan, and under sunny, side, up, over and easy, though not under fried. Emoji 0.6.
๐ฅEggU+1F95A. The plain one, in its shell. Unicode files it with the prepared food, and CLDR gives it three words: breakfast, egg and food. Emoji 3.0.
๐ฃHatching chickU+1F423. The only emoji CLDR files under hatching, and one of the four it files under egg. Unicode keeps it with the birds. Emoji 0.6.
๐ชบNest with eggsU+1FABA. The only emoji CLDR files under eggs, plural. Unicode keeps it with the plants. Emoji 14.0.
The other eight breakfast emoji 8
๐ฅBaconU+1F953. One of ten emoji CLDR files under breakfast. Egg and Cooking are two of the others. Emoji 3.0.
๐ฅฏBagelU+1F96F. Filed under breakfast, bakery and schmear. Emoji 11.0.
๐ฅฃBowl with spoonU+1F963. The cereal bowl of the ten. Emoji 5.0.
๐ฅCroissantU+1F950. Filed under breakfast, crescent and french. Emoji 3.0.
๐ฉDoughnutU+1F369. Breakfast, by CLDR. Nobody is checking. Emoji 0.6.
๐ดFork and knifeU+1F374. The last of the ten, and the only one that is not food. Emoji 0.6.
๐ฅPancakesU+1F95E. Filed under breakfast, hotcake and crรชpe. Emoji 3.0.
๐งWaffleU+1F9C7. Filed under breakfast and iron, and, for reasons of its own, indecisive. Emoji 12.0.
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Who lays them 5
๐ฆButterflyU+1F98B. The winged insect among Wikipedia's examples of egg-laying animals. Emoji 3.0.
๐ChickenU+1F414. Wikipedia on the old question: every chicken came out of an egg, and every chicken egg came out of a chicken. As an emoji the chicken is the elder, 0.6 to the egg's 3.0. Emoji 0.6.
๐FishU+1F41F. Wiktionary defines roe as the eggs of fish. Emoji 0.6.
๐ธFrogU+1F438. Frogspawn, in Wiktionary: the jelly-like clump of eggs a frog leaves in a pond or a ditch. Emoji 0.6.
๐ขTurtleU+1F422. A reptile. Wikipedia pictures a hawksbill sea turtle among its examples of animals that lay eggs, beside a platypus, which has no emoji. Emoji 0.6.
Egg shapes and egg characters 11
ใใพใEgg in Japanese (tamago): the reading of ๅต, written in hiragana
ๅตEgg in Chinese and JapaneseU+5375 CJK unified ideograph-5375. Unihan: egg; ovum; roe; spawn. Luวn in Mandarin, tamago in Japanese.
่Egg in Chinese, the kitchen kindU+86CB CJK unified ideograph-86CB. Dร n in Mandarin. Unihan glosses it as eggs, and adds that it is a term of abuse.
โฌฌEgg on its side, filled inU+2B2C Black horizontal ellipse. Lying down. One of four ellipses in a row, U+2B2C to U+2B2F.
โฌญEgg on its side, outlineU+2B2D White horizontal ellipse. Lying down and empty.
โฌฎEgg shape, filled inU+2B2E Black vertical ellipse. A text character, not an emoji, so it takes the colour of the words around it. In Unicode since 5.1.
โฌฏEgg shape, outlineU+2B2F White vertical ellipse. The same oval with nothing in it.
โFried egg, from aboveU+2299 Circled dot operator. A mathematical operator by trade. A white and a yolk by appearance.
๐ดฉHieroglyph duckling in an eggU+13D29 Egyptian hieroglyph-13D29. Described by Unicode as a duckling with open beak and outstretched wings, inside an egg. It arrived with Unicode 16.0, so it may show as an empty box.
๐Hieroglyph eggU+13187 Egyptian hieroglyph H008. Unicode's description is two words long: an egg.
๐งShavian letter eggU+10467 Shavian letter egg. The only character outside the emoji with egg in its Unicode name. Shavian, by Wikipedia, is a constructed alphabet for English named after George Bernard Shaw. It needs a font that has the block.
One-line text eggs 5
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0A dozen zeros
~{ 0 0 0 }~Three eggs in a nest
[0|0|0|0|0|0]Half a dozen, in the box
( o )Fried egg, plain ASCII
( o )======One egg in the pan, handle to the right
Egg combos 16
๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅA dozenEgg 12 times. Wikipedia: a dozen is a grouping of twelve. Counted, so you need not.
๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐งบAll your eggs in one basketEgg 3 times, then basket. Wiktionary: to rely on a single source rather than diversifying.
๐ฅ๐ณBacon and eggsBacon, then cooking. CLDR files both under breakfast.
๐ฅ๐คขBad eggEgg, then nauseated face. The literal kind: an egg that has gone bad. Wiktionary's other sense is a rogue.
๐๐ฅDeviled eggsSmiling face with horns, then egg. As Wiktionary has it: boiled hard, peeled and halved, with the yolk mashed to a paste and spooned back in. No devil is involved until now.
๐ฅ๐ณEgg on my faceEgg, then flushed face. Wiktionary: embarrassment or humiliation. For the message after the wrong one.
๐ณ๐Egg on toastCooking, then bread. No emoji is a slice of toast. Bread is the one CLDR files under the word.
โณ๐ฅEgg timerHourglass not done, then egg. In Wiktionary, a little hourglass for timing a boiling egg.
๐ฅ๐Good eggEgg, then smiling face with halo. A decent, trustworthy sort, as Wiktionary has it.
๐ชฟ๐ฅGoose eggGoose, then egg. Wiktionary: in North America, informally, zero or nothing. The scoreboard kind.
๐งฑ๐ฅHumpty DumptyBrick, then egg. Wikipedia: typically portrayed as an egg, though the nursery rhyme never says he is one.
๐ชบ๐ฐNest eggNest with eggs, then money bag. Wiktionary, in the figurative sense: a saving, a reserve of money.
๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ง๐ณOmeletteEgg 2 times, then butter, then cooking. No emoji is an omelette and CLDR files nothing under the word, so here are the parts. The proverb holds: it cannot be made without breaking eggs.
โ๏ธ๐ณSunny side upSun, then cooking. Fried on one side only and served yolk up and whole, as Wiktionary has it. Over easy gets a light turn in the pan, and CLDR files the fried egg under both.
๐ฃ๐ฅ๐ฅWalking on eggshellsFootprints, then egg 2 times. Wiktionary: to be overly careful around someone who gets angry or offended very easily.
๐โ๐ฅWhich came firstChicken, then red question mark, then egg. Wikipedia has Plutarch posing the question in the 1st century CE. Among the emoji it has an answer: the chicken, by some way.