🫔Tamale Emoji
Generally, the tamale emoji means a tamale! People use it to show they’re thinking about or craving a tamale.
The 🫔 emoji is the tamale.
- Unicode
- U+1FAD4
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :tamale:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🫔 Tamale emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Tamale emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the tamale 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.
Tamale 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 :tamale:.
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+1FAD4.
How to type the 🫔 Tamale emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1FAD4 when there is no key at all.
Tamale emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the tamale 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
Tamale emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around tamale 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
Who sent the tamale and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🫔 means in other countries
A specific, recognized dish tied to Mexican and Central American tradition, often linked to holidays rather than everyday eating.
Associated with Christmas and family gatherings, where making tamales together is a tradition.
Read simply as a tasty regional food reference, without the holiday association.
Before you send it: Works well around the December holidays as a nod to tradition; otherwise it just reads as “good food.”
What 🫔 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the tamale lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🫔 Tamale emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1FAD4 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.
Tamale was approved as U+1FAD4 and shipped in Emoji 13.0 (2020). 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.