Food & Drink · Emoji 5.0
🥣Bowl with Spoon Emoji
Basically, it just means a bowl of something. People use it to talk about food they’re eating or things they’d like to eat.
The 🥣 emoji is a bowl with a spoon.
- Unicode
- U+1F963
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :bowl_
with_ spoon: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🥣 Bowl with Spoon emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 7 of them.
People also look for it as cereal bowl emoji.
02 — Platforms
Bowl with Spoon emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the bowl with spoon 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
Bowl with Spoon emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :bowl_with_spoon:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the bowl with spoon, code point U+1F963.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🥣 Bowl with Spoon emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F963 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Bowl with Spoon 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
Bowl with Spoon emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around bowl with spoon 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
A neutral food icon that shifts meaning by region — cereal breakfast in the US, soup or noodles almost everywhere else.
Usually reads as breakfast cereal, oatmeal, or a quick snack between meals.
More likely read as noodles, rice, or soup — a full meal, not a snack.
Before you send it: Fine anywhere; if precision matters, pair it with the specific food emoji you actually mean.
10 — Apps
What 🥣 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F963, 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: Bowl with Spoon
Code: U+1F963 · added 2017
Shortcode: :bowl_with_spoon:
Basically, it just means a bowl of something.
Unicode name: Steaming Bowl
Code: U+1F35C · added 2010
Shortcode: :ramen:
Basically, it just means noodles!
13 — History
Where the 🥣 Bowl with Spoon emoji came from
It arrived with the 5.0 release of the standard, which dates the bowl with spoon to 2017.
Same character every time — U+1F963 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.
Bowl with Spoon was approved as U+1F963 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.
14 — FAQ