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Meaning & usage
What does the Waffle emoji mean?
A square waffle, for breakfast, brunch and sweet plates.
Indulgent and unhurried. It belongs to a slow morning, and it is sweet by default.
How to use 🧇 naturally
Brunch photos, weekend cooking and dessert posts.
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 🧇
- 2019
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Waffle was first defined as emoji in Emoji 12.0, dated 2019. A broad release, and the one that filled in several long-standing gaps.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2019 as a square grid with a pat of butter on top. The grid had to be deep enough to read at small sizes, so most platforms exaggerate the wells.
- Today
How its use evolved
Brunch photos, weekend cooking and dessert posts.
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.
Brunch, eventually, around noon 🧇
Bought the iron and used it twice 🧇
With ice cream, obviously 🧇
When to use it
Using 🧇 clearly
Brunch photos, weekend cooking and dessert posts. It lands as waffle emoji or brunch 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 waffle emoji
What does 🧇 mean in a text message?
A square waffle, for breakfast, brunch and sweet plates. Indulgent and unhurried. It belongs to a slow morning, and it is sweet by default.
Is 🧇 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are waffle emoji, brunch emoji, 🧇 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🧇 look different on another device?
U+1F9C7 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 waffle 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 waffle emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🧇 as emoji in Emoji 12.0, dated 2019. 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+1F9C7 | 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 | \1F9C7 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9C7} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A7%87 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F9C7
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- waffle emojibrunch emoji🧇 meaning
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