Pizza Emoji

Food

A single triangular slice of pepperoni pizza shown with a golden, melted cheese topping and a crusty edge. The design features classic circular slices of pepperoni scattered across the cheese.

Usage Context

Widely used to organize late-night food deliveries, express excitement about casual social gatherings, or simply signal a craving for Italian cuisine. It is frequently sent in group chats to coordinate dinner plans alongside emojis like 🍺 or 🥤.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, the pizza emoji was developed as emoji adoption grew across Western mobile platforms. Its inclusion reflected the massive global popularity of pizza as a staple of digital communication and food delivery culture.

Details

Glyph

🍕

Unicode

U+1F355

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f355:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF55;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Food

Subcategory food-prepared

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository