Try Hot Pepper emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Hot Pepper emoji mean?
A red chilli, for heat, spice and anything described as hot.
Hot in both senses. Cooking posts mean the spice; captions often mean something more flattering.
How to use 🌶️ naturally
Food posts about spice, and compliments about a look or a track.
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, Hot Pepper 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 red chilli with a green stem, curved to one side, from the carrier set. It has become the standard heat rating far outside any menu.
- Today
How its use evolved
Food posts about spice, and compliments about a look or a track.
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.
Three of these in the sauce, possibly too many 🌶️
That outfit 🌶️
Menu said medium and lied 🌶️
When to use it
Using 🌶️ clearly
Food posts about spice, and compliments about a look or a track. It lands as pepper emoji or chilli 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 hot pepper emoji
What does 🌶️ mean in a text message?
A red chilli, for heat, spice and anything described as hot. Hot in both senses. Cooking posts mean the spice; captions often mean something more flattering.
Is 🌶️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are pepper emoji, chilli emoji, spicy emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🌶️ look different on another device?
U+1F336 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 hot pepper 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 pepper 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+1F336 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 | \1F336 \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F336}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8C%B6%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F336 U+FE0F
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- pepper emojichilli emojispicy emoji
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