Garlic Emoji

Food

A bulb of white garlic with a few exposed cloves at the top. It highlights the papery, textured skin of the vegetable and is often used to represent cooking, pungent flavors, or Italian cuisine.

Usage Context

Use this when talking about recipes, grocery lists, or warding off vampires in folklore. It is frequently sent alongside the 🥘 or 🍝 emojis to indicate that a meal is seasoned with plenty of fresh aromatics.

History

The garlic emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 following a campaign led by professional chefs and food enthusiasts. Its inclusion finally filled a major gap in the digital pantry, allowing for more specific culinary communication in group chats and recipe blogs.

Details

Glyph

🧄

Unicode

U+1F9C4

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9c4:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDC4;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Food

Subcategory food-vegetable

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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