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Meaning & usage
What does the Spaghetti emoji mean?
A plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce, the pasta emoji.
Cosy and everyday, with a romantic edge thanks to a famous dog film.
How to use 🍝 naturally
Pasta nights, Italian food and date-night dinners.
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, Spaghetti 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 plate of spaghetti with red sauce and a fork. It covers every pasta shape because it is the only pasta Unicode encodes.
- Today
How its use evolved
Pasta nights, Italian food and date-night dinners.
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.
Pasta night, again 🍝
Date night at the Italian place 🍝
Made the sauce from scratch 🍝
When to use it
Using 🍝 clearly
Pasta nights, Italian food and date-night dinners. It lands as pasta emoji or spaghetti 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 spaghetti emoji
What does 🍝 mean in a text message?
A plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce, the pasta emoji. Cosy and everyday, with a romantic edge thanks to a famous dog film.
Is 🍝 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are pasta emoji, spaghetti emoji, 🍝 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🍝 look different on another device?
U+1F35D 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 spaghetti 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 spaghetti 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+1F35D | 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 | \1F35D | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F35D} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8D%9D | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F35D
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- pasta emojispaghetti emoji🍝 meaning
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