Hot pepper Emoji

Food

A bright red chili pepper with a small green stem at the top. It features a curved, tapered body that clearly indicates its spicy, pungent nature.

Usage Context

Used to describe spicy food, a burning sensation, or to convey that something is 'hot' or 'sizzling.' It frequently appears in restaurant reviews or social media posts about culinary heat, and is often paired with 🔥 to emphasize an intense flavor profile.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0, this icon was adopted to satisfy the growing need for food-related imagery in mobile messaging as food photography and social sharing became a mainstream cultural activity.

Details

Glyph

🌶

Unicode

U+1F336

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f336:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF36;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Food

Subcategory food-vegetable

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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