🌮Taco Emoji
Generally, the taco emoji just means you’re talking about tacos. It’s a fun way to represent the food itself.
The taco emoji (🌮) represents a delicious Mexican food – a taco!
- Unicode
- U+1F32E
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :taco:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🌮 Taco emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Taco emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the taco has been drawn in 3 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Taco emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :taco:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the taco, code point U+1F32E.
How to type the 🌮 Taco emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F32E when there is no key at all.
Taco emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Taco emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around taco for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🌮, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🌮 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🌮 means in other countries
Globally recognized as Mexican-style food, but in the US it’s also become a generic party/casual-Tuesday icon detached from the dish itself.
Refers to the actual dish, eaten daily — no festive or ironic undertone.
Often tied to “Taco Tuesday” marketing, used loosely for any Mexican-style meal plan.
Before you send it: Neutral to send; just don’t assume it always means an authentic Mexican taco to the person reading it.
What 🌮 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F32E, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🌮 Taco emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the taco has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F32E never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Taco was approved as U+1F32E and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🌮 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.