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Meaning & usage
What does the Pizza emoji mean?
A slice of pizza — shared, easy comfort food.
Casual comfort and an easy shared meal. It often suggests a social plan, craving or reward rather than conveying a complicated emotion.
How to use 🍕 naturally
Dinner plans and Friday-night moods.
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, Pizza 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
A single slice seen from above, not a whole pizza. The slice is the standard because it fills a square frame better than a circle does.
- Today
How its use evolved
Dinner plans and Friday-night moods.
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.
Pizza after work? 🍕
Friday night dinner is sorted 🍕
I could really use a slice right now 🍕
When to use it
Using 🍕 clearly
Dinner plans and Friday-night moods. It lands as slice or food 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 pizza emoji
What does 🍕 mean in a text message?
A slice of pizza — shared, easy comfort food. Casual comfort and an easy shared meal. It often suggests a social plan, craving or reward rather than conveying a complicated emotion.
Is 🍕 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are slice, food, italian, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🍕 look different on another device?
U+1F355 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 pizza 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 pizza 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+1F355 | 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 | \1F355 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F355} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8D%95 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F355
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- slicefooditalian
Put it in a message
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