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🥄Spoon Emoji
Unicode added 🥄 spoon in Emoji 3.0 (2016), filed under Food & Drink → Dishware. Its codepoint is U+1F944, and it is tagged eat, tableware.
What 🥄 spoon means
Cutlery and vessels, small but useful. 🍴 and 🍽️ mark a meal or a restaurant, and 🍽️ has picked up a second sense from “ate” as praise — did something extremely well. 🔪 signals cooking prep or a joke threat, tone depending entirely on context. Unicode's formal name for U+1F52A is HOCHO, the Japanese word for kitchen knife.
Unicode tags this one eat, tableware and files it under Food & Drink → Dishware.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F944 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🥄 | |
| HTML decimal | 🥄 | |
| CSS | \1F944 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F944} | |
| Python | \U0001F944 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDD44 | |
| Rust | \u{1f944} | |
| Swift | \u{1F944} | |
| PHP | \u{1F944} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A5%84 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A5 84 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DD44 | |
| Base64 | 8J+lhA== | |
| Decimal | 129348 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 3.0 (2016) | |
Keywords
- eat
- tableware
Appears in these collections
How to type 🥄
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “spoon”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “eat”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f944and 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 🥄 spoon emoji mean?+
🥄 is the spoon emoji, tagged eat, tableware. Cutlery and vessels, small but useful. 🍴 and 🍽️ mark a meal or a restaurant, and 🍽️ has picked up a second sense from “ate” as praise — did something extremely well. 🔪 signals cooking prep or a joke threat, tone depending entirely on context. Unicode's formal name for U+1F52A is HOCHO, the Japanese word for kitchen knife.
What is the Unicode code for 🥄?+
spoon is U+1F944. In HTML that is 🥄, in CSS \1F944, and in JavaScript \u{1F944}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🥄 emoji added?+
spoon got its emoji presentation in Emoji 3.0 (2016). 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 Dishware in Food & Drink.
Added in Emoji 3.0 (2016)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🥄 spoon.