Try Poultry Leg emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Poultry Leg emoji mean?
A cooked drumstick with the bone left bare as a handle.
Casual and hungry. It is about eating right now, so it fits takeaway plans and roast dinners better than a formal menu.
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.
Third helping and no regrets 🍗
Roast is in, ready about six 🍗
Got the good leftovers 🍗
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. Casual and hungry. It is about eating right now, so it fits takeaway plans and roast dinners better than a formal menu.
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.
What does 🍗 mean from a girl or from a guy?
The same thing either way: A cooked drumstick with the bone left bare as a handle. The sender's gender does not change what the character means. What does change it is how well you know each other, what the rest of the message says, and whether either of you is being ironic.
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
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