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food-prepared
Falafel
1F9C6 · U+1F9C6 · 🧆
What it means
The Falafel Emoji 🧆 renders three textured, golden brown falafel balls clustered together, lightly speckled to suggest a crisp fried coating and an inviting bite-sized shape.
Commonly tapped to represent Middle Eastern food favorites—especially the beloved chickpea or fava bean falafel—it's popular in chats about vegetarian eating, takeout options, Mediterranean cuisine, or simply the joy of crispy snacks.
Unlike its sibling 🥙 stuffed flatbread, 🧆 keeps the focus on the core ingredient—no bread, just the round, crunchy morsels themselves (in other words, the real stars of the pita).
Type "falafel," "chickpea," or even "meatball" in your emoji search bar to track down this round treat.
Commonly tapped to represent Middle Eastern food favorites—especially the beloved chickpea or fava bean falafel—it's popular in chats about vegetarian eating, takeout options, Mediterranean cuisine, or simply the joy of crispy snacks.
Unlike its sibling 🥙 stuffed flatbread, 🧆 keeps the focus on the core ingredient—no bread, just the round, crunchy morsels themselves (in other words, the real stars of the pita).
Type "falafel," "chickpea," or even "meatball" in your emoji search bar to track down this round treat.
Keywords
Search terms recorded for this emoji in Unicode CLDR.
Details
| Hexa | 1F9C6 |
|---|---|
| Codepoints | U+1F9C6 |
| HTML (hex) | 🧆 |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧆 |
| CLDR short name | falafel |
| Emoji version | Emoji 12.0 · 2019 → |
| Qualification | fully-qualified |
| Category | Food & Drink |
| Subcategory | food-prepared |
Timeline
- Emoji 12.0 · 2019Falafel entered the standard as U+1F9C6, establishing the codepoint still used today.
- TodayRendered across major platforms. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each draw it in their own style while preserving the same underlying character.
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