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Meaning & usage
What does the Meat on Bone emoji mean?
A cartoon piece of meat on a bone, for meat, roasts and ham.
Playful and hungry. The cartoon shape makes it feel more like a feast than a meal.
How to use 🍖 naturally
Roast dinners, barbecues and feasting jokes.
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 🍖
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Meat on Bone 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
From the carrier set, a meaty drumstick shape straight out of manga and video games. It has no real-world cut, which is exactly why it looks so good to cartoon characters.
- Today
How its use evolved
Roast dinners, barbecues and feasting jokes.
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.
Sunday roast is ready 🍖
Feast mode 🍖
Leftovers for days 🍖
When to use it
Using 🍖 clearly
Roast dinners, barbecues and feasting jokes. It lands as ham emoji or meat 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 meat on bone emoji
What does 🍖 mean in a text message?
A cartoon piece of meat on a bone, for meat, roasts and ham. Playful and hungry. The cartoon shape makes it feel more like a feast than a meal.
Is 🍖 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are ham emoji, meat emoji, 🍖 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🍖 look different on another device?
U+1F356 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 meat on bone 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 meat on bone emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🍖 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
🍖 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+1F356 | 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 | \1F356 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F356} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8D%96 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F356
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- ham emojimeat emoji🍖 meaning
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