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🧀Cheese Wedge Emoji
The cheese wedge emoji 🧀 carries the codepoint U+1F9C0 and has been in the standard since Emoji 1.0 (2015). It belongs to Food & Drink → Cooked / Prepared.
What 🧀 cheese wedge means
The everyday meal set: 🍕, 🍔, 🌮 and 🍟 turn up in plans, cravings and restaurant reviews with their literal meaning intact. 🍿 has drifted furthest, now meaning you are watching an argument unfold rather than a film, and 🧂 doubles as calling someone bitter. Google's 2017 burger emoji put the cheese underneath the patty, drew enough complaints to become news, and was redesigned.
Unicode tags this one cheese, wedge and files it under Food & Drink → Cooked / Prepared.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9C0 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧀 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧀 | |
| CSS | \1F9C0 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9C0} | |
| Python | \U0001F9C0 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDC0 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9c0} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9C0} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9C0} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%80 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 80 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDC0 | |
| Base64 | 8J+ngA== | |
| Decimal | 129472 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
- cheese
- wedge
Appears in these collections
How to type 🧀
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “cheese wedge”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “cheese”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9c0and Enter. - HTML — paste
🧀.
How 🧀 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🧀Apple
- 🧀Segoe
- 🧀Noto
- 🧀System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🧀 cheese wedge emoji mean?+
🧀 is the cheese wedge emoji, tagged cheese, wedge. The everyday meal set: 🍕, 🍔, 🌮 and 🍟 turn up in plans, cravings and restaurant reviews with their literal meaning intact. 🍿 has drifted furthest, now meaning you are watching an argument unfold rather than a film, and 🧂 doubles as calling someone bitter. Google's 2017 burger emoji put the cheese underneath the patty, drew enough complaints to become news, and was redesigned.
What is the Unicode code for 🧀?+
cheese wedge is U+1F9C0. In HTML that is 🧀, in CSS \1F9C0, and in JavaScript \u{1F9C0}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧀 emoji added?+
cheese wedge got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Cooked / Prepared in Food & Drink.
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧀 cheese wedge.