Shallow Pan of Food Emoji
A shallow pan of food, for paella, stews and cooking for a crowd.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Shallow Pan of Food emoji mean?
A shallow pan of food, for paella, stews and cooking for a crowd.
Generous and social. It suggests cooking for several people, not for one.
How to use 🥘 naturally
Dinner party posts, Spanish food and anything served from one pan.
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 🥘
- 2016
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Shallow Pan of Food was first defined as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Part of the rapid mid-decade expansion beyond the original mobile set.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2016 as a two-handled pan with prawns and peas visible. Unicode named it generically so it could stand for any one-pan dish, although everyone reads it as paella.
- Today
How its use evolved
Dinner party posts, Spanish food and anything served from one pan.
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.
Fed nine people out of one pan 🥘
Sunday project, four hours in 🥘
Valencia, and I will not stop talking about it 🥘
When to use it
Using 🥘 clearly
Dinner party posts, Spanish food and anything served from one pan. It lands as pan emoji or paella 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 shallow pan of food emoji
What does 🥘 mean in a text message?
A shallow pan of food, for paella, stews and cooking for a crowd. Generous and social. It suggests cooking for several people, not for one.
Is 🥘 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are pan emoji, paella emoji, 🥘 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🥘 look different on another device?
U+1F958 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 shallow pan of food 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 shallow pan of food emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🥘 as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. 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+1F958 | 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 | \1F958 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F958} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%98 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F958
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- pan emojipaella emoji🥘 meaning
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