🍲Pot of Food Emoji
Generally, the 🍲 emoji just means someone is talking about food, specifically something served from a pot or bowl. It’s a casual way to show they’re eating or thinking about a meal.
The 🍲 emoji is basically a steaming pot of food.
- Unicode
- U+1F372
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :stew:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🍲 Pot of Food emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Pot of Food emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the pot of food as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Pot of Food 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 :stew:.
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+1F372.
How to type the 🍲 Pot of Food emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F372 when there is no key at all.
Pot of Food emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the pot of food as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Pot of Food emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around pot of food 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
A generic stew-pot symbol with no attached cuisine, closer to “home cooking” or “comfort food” than any specific dish.
Often used for “dinner’s ready” or slow-cooked family meals.
Stands in for stews, hot pot, or curry generally, whichever the conversation is about.
Before you send it: Neutral choice for “cooking something warm” — no need to overthink it.
What 🍲 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the pot of food lands changes how it is taken.
🍲 vs 🥩 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Pot of Food
Code: U+1F372 · added 2010
Shortcode: :stew:
Generally, the 🍲 emoji just means someone is talking about food, specifically something served from a pot or bowl.
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.
Where the 🍲 Pot of Food 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+1F372 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 EABE, SoftBank E34D.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Pot of Food was approved as U+1F372 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.