🥡Takeout Box Emoji
Generally, it just means someone is talking about takeout food. It’s a quick way to show you’re thinking about Chinese or other delivered meals.
The 🥡 emoji represents a takeout box.
- Unicode
- U+1F961
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :takeout_box:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🥡 Takeout Box emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 7.
Takeout Box emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F961 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your takeout box looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Takeout Box 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 :takeout_box:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the takeout box, code point U+1F961.
How to type the 🥡 Takeout Box emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Takeout Box 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
Takeout Box emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around takeout box 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
The white pail box is an American invention tied to US Chinese-food delivery, not a symbol used in China itself.
Instant shorthand for Chinese takeout or leftovers, independent of what food is actually inside.
The pail box itself isn’t part of local food culture, so the reference doesn’t register the same way.
Before you send it: Works fine as a generic “ordering in” icon; don’t expect it to read as authentically Chinese to Chinese recipients.
What 🥡 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F961, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🥡 Takeout Box emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 5.0, the takeout box has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 9.
Same character every time — U+1F961 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.
Takeout Box was approved as U+1F961 and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). 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.