🥨Pretzel Emoji
Generally, the pretzel emoji just means a pretzel. It’s a straightforward way to express that you’re craving one or that something reminds you of a pretzel.
The 🥨 emoji is a pretzel!
- Unicode
- U+1F968
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :pretzel:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🥨 Pretzel emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Pretzel emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the pretzel 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.
Pretzel 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 :pretzel:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F968.
How to type the 🥨 Pretzel emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Pretzel emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the pretzel 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
Pretzel emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around pretzel 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🥨 means in other countries
Reads as German or American snack food, plus the idiom “pretzel logic” for tangled reasoning.
A traditional beer-hall and bakery staple.
“Twisted like a pretzel” describes confusing or contorted logic.
Before you send it: Use it freely for food, snacks, or German-themed content.
What 🥨 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the 🥨 Pretzel emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F968 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.
Pretzel was approved as U+1F968 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.