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Meaning & usage
What does the Poultry Leg emoji mean?
A cooked drumstick with the bone left bare as a handle.
How to use 🍗 naturally
Roast dinners, takeaway and a Thanksgiving plate.
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, Poultry Leg 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 cooked drumstick with the bone left bare as a handle. It is one of the Japanese carrier characters, drawn for a menu rather than for a holiday.
- Today
How its use evolved
Roast dinners, takeaway and a Thanksgiving plate.
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.
When to use it
Using 🍗 clearly
Roast dinners, takeaway and a Thanksgiving plate. It lands as chicken emoji or drumstick 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 poultry leg emoji
What does 🍗 mean in a text message?
A cooked drumstick with the bone left bare as a handle.
Is 🍗 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are chicken emoji, drumstick emoji, turkey leg emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🍗 look different on another device?
U+1F357 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 poultry leg 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 poultry leg 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+1F357 | 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 | \1F357 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F357} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8D%97 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
Reference card
Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F357
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- chicken emojidrumstick emojiturkey leg emoji
Put it in a message
When 🍗 is the right choice
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