Food & Drink · Emoji 3.0
🥘Shallow Pan of Food Emoji
Basically, it means a big, delicious-looking meal, usually something like paella or rice with seafood. People use it to show they're talking about food or to express that something is tasty.
The 🥘 emoji is all about food, specifically a big, delicious meal.
- Unicode
- U+1F958
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :shallow_
pan_ of_ food: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🥘 Shallow Pan of Food emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
02 — Platforms
Shallow Pan of Food emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F958. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Shallow Pan of Food emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :shallow_pan_of_food:.
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+1F958.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🥘 Shallow Pan of Food emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Shallow Pan of Food 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
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Shallow Pan of Food emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around shallow pan of food 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 generic stew-and-skillet icon with no fixed dish attached, so it reads however the surrounding words frame it.
Used loosely for any one-pan dinner, from paella to stir-fry.
Often stands in for “home-cooked meal” in general, not a specific cuisine.
Before you send it: Safe as a generic “cooking dinner” marker; add the dish name if the cuisine matters.
10 — Apps
What 🥘 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F958, 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: Shallow Pan of Food
Code: U+1F958 · added 2016
Shortcode: :shallow_pan_of_food:
Basically, it means a big, delicious-looking meal, usually something like paella or rice with seafood.
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 🥘 Shallow Pan of Food emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F958 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.
Shallow Pan of Food was approved as U+1F958 and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). 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.
14 — FAQ