Food & Drink · Emoji 1.0
🧀Cheese Wedge Emoji
Generally, it just means cheese. People use it when they’re talking about food, or just to express something they find amusing.
The cheese wedge emoji (🧀) usually represents actual cheese, obviously!
- Unicode
- U+1F9C0
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :cheese_
wedge: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧀 Cheese Wedge emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as cheese emoji.
02 — Platforms
Cheese Wedge emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F9C0 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your cheese wedge looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Cheese Wedge emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :cheese_wedge:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the cheese wedge, code point U+1F9C0.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🧀 Cheese Wedge emoji
No picker to hand? The cheese wedge can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Cheese Wedge emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the cheese wedge as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Cheese Wedge emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cheese wedge 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
Who sent the cheese wedge and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 🧀 means in other countries
Plain food almost everywhere, plus “cheesy” for something corny or over-sentimental.
“Cheesy” describes jokes or content that’s overly sentimental or unoriginal.
“Say cheese” is the standard phrase for smiling at a camera.
Before you send it: Safe anywhere; works as a light joke when calling something corny.
10 — Apps
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.
12 — History
Where the 🧀 Cheese Wedge emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the cheese wedge has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F9C0 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.
Cheese Wedge was approved as U+1F9C0 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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.
13 — FAQ