An herb, a plant used in cooking or medicine. Depicted as a green sprig, as of basil, sage, or oregano, generally with five or seven leaves.

May be used for various content concerning cooking, vegetarianism or veganism, herbal medicine, and plant life more generally. Can also be used as slang for marijuana.

Not to be confused with 🌱 Seedling, though their applications may overlap.

This emoji predates the inclusion of emojis within Unicode. It was first added to early Japanese emoji keyboards by au by KDDI in 2003.

Herb was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.