Food and drink emojis
Food emojis are among the most heavily reinterpreted in Unicode. 🍆 and 🍑 have meant something other than vegetables and fruit for over a decade, and platforms have quietly adjusted their artwork because of it.
The rest is genuinely about food, and it is one of the best-covered areas of the standard — regional dishes from a dozen cuisines, plus most of the drinks you would order.
Food & Drink Emojis copy and paste
Tap an emoji to copy it, or open it for the meaning, platform designs and codes.
Food fruit 20 emojis
Food vegetable 19 emojis
Food asian 17 emojis
Food prepared 34 emojis
Food sweet 14 emojis
Drink 20 emojis
Dishware 7 emojis
Food & Drink Emojis and their meanings
What each one actually says in a chat — the reading, not the dictionary name.
Generally, it just means an apple.
Generally, when someone sends you an apple emoji, they’re just wishing you something good.
Generally, 🍋🟩 means a lime.
Generally, the 🍉 emoji just means watermelon.
Generally, the strawberry emoji means something is sweet or enjoyable.
Generally, the 🫐 emoji just means blueberries.
Basically, when someone sends you 🍒 in a text, they're just saying they find something cute or sweet.
Generally, the pineapple emoji just means “pineapple” or something related to the tropical fruit.
Generally, the 🥝 emoji just means kiwi fruit.
Generally, when someone sends you the 🍆 emoji, they’re indicating they’re thinking about sex.
Generally, when someone sends you an 🥑, they’re just sharing something they find appealing or delicious.
Generally, the 🥬 emoji just means “lettuce” or “leafy greens.
Basically, it’s just a cute way to represent beans.
Generally, the 🌶 emoji means something is spicy, hot, or intense.
Generally, the 🫑 emoji means a bell pepper.
Basically, when someone sends you the 🌽 emoji, they’re just referencing corn!
Generally, when someone sends you a 🥕 emoji, they’re just being playful and a little bit silly.
Generally, the 🫚 emoji simply means ginger.
Generally, the 🍠 emoji just means a roasted sweet potato.
Generally, the 🥖 emoji just means baguette bread.
Generally, it just means cheese.
When someone uses 🧈 in a text, they’re usually just saying something is really good, creamy, or decadent.
Generally, when someone sends you the pancake emoji, they’re just sharing something they find cute or relatable – it’s often a way to express a small joy.
Generally, the 🥩 emoji means someone is talking about meat, often in a positive way.
Generally, it just means chicken, usually a drumstick.
Generally, it just means someone is talking about meat or a meal that involves meat.
Basically, it just means french fries.
Basically, it's just a visual representation of a stuffed flatbread.
The food emojis people actually send
Ranked by how often they are used, not by Unicode order. Every vendor draws them differently — this is what your message looks like on the other side.
Which of these change meaning in other countries
The same picture, a different message. These are the ones from this set worth checking before you send them to someone in another country.
Its shape makes it one of the default phallic-joke emoji, and separately it has an ugly history as a racist prop against Black athletes.
Apple deliberately kept the cleft shape in its redesign because everyone was already using it to mean a butt, not the fruit.
The single most recognized phallic emoji online — Instagram once blocked its own hashtag search over how it was being used.
A basic cooking tool that reads very differently the moment it's aimed at a person instead of a recipe.
A plain fruit almost everywhere, except in Chinese culture, where sharing or cutting a pear is considered bad luck.
A plain citrus fruit most places, but oranges and tangerines are a genuine good-luck gift during Chinese New Year.
Food & Drink Emojis combinations
Ready-made combos built only from this set — for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
How to use food emojis
When food emojis arrived
This set was not added at once. It grew over 14 years, which is why the drawing styles inside it do not always match.
Food & Drink Emojis — questions
What are food emojis?
How many food emojis are there?
How do I copy and paste food emojis?
Will these food emojis look the same for everyone?
Can I use food emojis in an Instagram bio or a username?
What are the best food emojis combinations?
Collections close to food emojis
These share the most emoji with this page — red emojis overlaps most, with 7 of the same characters.