Fork and Knife with Plate Emoji
A plate with cutlery either side, the standard sign for a meal.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Fork and Knife with Plate emoji mean?
A plate with cutlery either side, the standard sign for a meal.
Neutral and functional. It labels a meal without saying anything about the food.
How to use 🍽️ naturally
Dinner announcements, restaurant posts and menu labels.
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 🍽️
- 2014
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Fork and Knife with Plate was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.7, dated 2014. Another retrospective label, covering characters recognised as emoji in 2014.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A round plate flanked by a fork and knife, added in 2014 alongside the plainer 🍴. This one includes the plate, which is why signage and menus prefer it.
- Today
How its use evolved
Dinner announcements, restaurant posts and menu labels.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🍽️ in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Table booked for seven 🍽️
Dinner is ready 🍽️
First proper meal in two days 🍽️
When to use it
Using 🍽️ clearly
Dinner announcements, restaurant posts and menu labels. It lands as fork emoji or plate emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the fork and knife with plate emoji
What does 🍽️ mean in a text message?
A plate with cutlery either side, the standard sign for a meal. Neutral and functional. It labels a meal without saying anything about the food.
Is 🍽️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are fork emoji, plate emoji, dinner emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🍽️ look different on another device?
U+1F37D U+FE0F 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 fork and knife with plate emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🍽️ is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the fork and knife with plate emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🍽️ as emoji in Emoji 0.7, dated 2014. 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
🍽️ 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+1F37D U+FE0F | 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 | \1F37D \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F37D}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8D%BD%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
Reference card
Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F37D U+FE0F
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- fork emojiplate emojidinner emoji
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