Food & Drink · Emoji 12.0
🧆Falafel Emoji
Generally, the 🧆 emoji just means “falafel.” People use it to indicate they’re eating it, talking about it, or just want to share that they enjoy it.
The 🧆 emoji represents a falafel sandwich.
- Unicode
- U+1F9C6
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :falafel:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧆 Falafel emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 2.
02 — Platforms
Falafel emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9C6. 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
Falafel 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 :falafel:.
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+1F9C6.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🧆 Falafel emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F9C6 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Falafel emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the falafel 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
JoyPixels
06 — Combinations
Falafel emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around falafel 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 falafel and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 🧆 means in other countries
A shared dish across several cuisines, and its origin is genuinely contested — using it as a symbol in that debate can read as taking a side.
Everyday chickpea or fava street food, no political weight in normal conversation.
Origin of falafel is a live dispute, so leaning on the emoji there can imply a claim of ownership.
Just reads as “Middle Eastern food,” with no deeper association.
Before you send it: Fine for food talk; skip it as a rhetorical prop in conversations about the region’s politics.
10 — Apps
What 🧆 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the falafel lands changes how it is taken.
12 — History
Where the 🧆 Falafel emoji came from
It arrived with the 12.0 release of the standard, which dates the falafel to 2019.
Same character every time — U+1F9C6 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.
Falafel was approved as U+1F9C6 and shipped in Emoji 12.0 (2019). 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