Food & Drink · Emoji 0.6
🍖Meat on Bone Emoji
Generally, it just means someone is talking about meat or a meal that involves meat. It’s a pretty straightforward way to show you’re thinking about food.
The 🍖 emoji is a meat bone.
- Unicode
- U+1F356
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :meat_
on_ bone: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🍖 Meat on Bone emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
02 — Platforms
Meat on Bone emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the meat on bone has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Meat on Bone emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :meat_on_bone:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F356.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🍖 Meat on Bone emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F356 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Meat on Bone 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Meat on Bone emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around meat on bone 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Around the world
What 🍖 means in other countries
A cartoonish “caveman” meat emoji, used more for comic effect than as a literal food reference.
Often shown as an exaggerated prop, like something a cartoon character gnaws on.
Reads as a plain hearty meat dish.
Before you send it: Use it freely; it reads as playful even more than as a literal food picture.
10 — Apps
What 🍖 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F356, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
12 — Difference
🍖 vs 🥩 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Meat on Bone
Code: U+1F356 · added 2010
Shortcode: :meat_on_bone:
Generally, it just means someone is talking about meat or a meal that involves meat.
Unicode name: Cut of Meat
Code: U+1F969 · added 2017
Shortcode: :cut_of_meat:
Generally, the 🥩 emoji means someone is talking about meat, often in a positive way.
13 — History
Where the 🍖 Meat on Bone 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+1F356 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 E4C4.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Meat on Bone was approved as U+1F356 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.
14 — FAQ