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Meaning & usage
What does the Hot Dog emoji mean?
A hot dog with mustard, for street food, stadiums and barbecues.
Casual and loud. Sport and summer carry most of its use.
How to use 🌭 naturally
Match days, summer cooking and American food posts.
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 🌭
- 2015
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Hot Dog was first defined as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. The first release where Unicode versioned the emoji set as a standard in its own right.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2015 with a single yellow zigzag of mustard. The zigzag is fixed into the character, so nobody can have one without it.
- Today
How its use evolved
Match days, summer cooking and American food posts.
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.
Stadium food is the entire reason I came 🌭
Barbecue at four, bring nothing 🌭
Mustard only, this is not a debate 🌭
When to use it
Using 🌭 clearly
Match days, summer cooking and American food posts. It lands as hot dog emoji or 🌭 meaning 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 hot dog emoji
What does 🌭 mean in a text message?
A hot dog with mustard, for street food, stadiums and barbecues. Casual and loud. Sport and summer carry most of its use.
Is 🌭 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are hot dog emoji, 🌭 meaning, fast food emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🌭 look different on another device?
U+1F32D 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 hot dog 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 hot dog emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🌭 as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. 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+1F32D | 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 | \1F32D | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F32D} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8C%AD | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F32D
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- hot dog emoji🌭 meaningfast food emoji
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