Food & Drink · Emoji 0.6
🍕Pizza Emoji
Generally, the pizza emoji means pizza! People use it to express their love for pizza or to talk about ordering or eating it.
The pizza emoji shows a slice of pizza.
- Unicode
- U+1F355
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :pizza:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🍕 Pizza emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
People also look for it as pizza slice emoji.
02 — Platforms
Pizza emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the pizza as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Pizza emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :pizza:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F355.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🍕 Pizza emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Pizza emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the pizza as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Pizza emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around pizza for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →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.
08 — In conversation
What 🍕 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Around the world
What 🍕 means in other countries
About as universal as food emoji get, understood the same way worldwide.
The birthplace of pizza, with strong opinions about what counts as “authentic.”
A default comfort-food and takeout reference.
Before you send it: Safe anywhere; a reliable go-to for casual food talk.
10 — Apps
What 🍕 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F355, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
12 — History
Where the 🍕 Pizza emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F355 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🍕 existed there as
KDDI au EB3B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Pizza was approved as U+1F355 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
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.
13 — FAQ