Cheese wedge Emoji
Food
A thick, triangular slice of yellow cheese featuring several round holes cut into its surface. It bears a striking resemblance to a classic block of Swiss cheese, specifically Emmental.
Usage Context
Used to talk about snacks, gourmet food platters, or to signal a love for dairy. In digital slang, it is frequently used in memes about being 'cheesy' or jokingly referred to as the favorite food of a mouse character, often alongside the 🐭 emoji.
History
Added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, this emoji was introduced as part of the expansion of food-related icons to meet the high demand for more specific dietary options in messaging apps and social media platforms.
Details
Glyph
🧀
Unicode
U+1F9C0
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9c0:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Food
Subcategory food-prepared
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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