Chocolate Bar Emoji
A bar of chocolate representing treats, comfort and small indulgences.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Chocolate Bar emoji mean?
A bar of chocolate representing treats, comfort and small indulgences.
Indulgent and small-scale. It suits treats and rewards, and it is one of the more affectionate food emoji to send someone.
How to use π« naturally
Gifts, cravings, and rewarding yourself after getting through something.
Food and drink emoji are most often literal, but they also signal plans, cravings, celebrations and shared routines. Context is especially important when a food has a slang meaning in a particular community.
From standard to slang
The history of π«
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicodeβs Emoji Versions data, Chocolate Bar was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A part-unwrapped bar with the squares showing. The foil is drawn peeled back, which is what makes it about eating rather than buying.
- Today
How its use evolved
Gifts, cravings, and rewarding yourself after getting through something.
Dates follow Unicodeβs official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of π« in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Got through it. Reward acquired π«
Left one in your drawer π«
Emergency supplies π«
When to use it
Using π« clearly
Gifts, cravings, and rewarding yourself after getting through something. It lands as chocolate emoji meaning or π« meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding β so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the chocolate bar emoji
What does π« mean in a text message?
A bar of chocolate representing treats, comfort and small indulgences. Indulgent and small-scale. It suits treats and rewards, and it is one of the more affectionate food emoji to send someone.
Is π« always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are chocolate emoji meaning, π« meaning, chocolate bar emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does π« look different on another device?
U+1F36B identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the chocolate bar emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. π« is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the chocolate bar emoji introduced?
Unicodeβs Emoji Versions data first records π« as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
π« in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F36B | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🍫 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🍫 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F36B | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F36B} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8D%AB | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F36B
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- chocolate emoji meaningπ« meaningchocolate bar emoji
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