Spoon Emoji

Food

A silver-colored spoon resting at a slight angle. The design features a shallow, oval-shaped bowl connected to a handle, accurately mimicking the standard piece of flatware used for eating soups, cereals, or desserts.

Usage Context

Used to talk about cooking, eating, or specific food items like ice cream or broth. It often appears in conversations about feeding, kitchen chores, or meal planning. It is frequently grouped with other dining essentials like the fork or knife to round out a table setting.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2016, this emoji was introduced to complete the basic cutlery set on mobile devices. It filled a long-standing gap for food-related digital communication, as users previously had to rely on less specific icons to describe eating habits.

Details

Glyph

🥄

Unicode

U+1F944

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f944:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD44;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Food

Subcategory dishware

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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