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food-prepared

Pretzel

1F968 · U+1F968 · 🥨

What it means

The Pretzel Emoji 🥨 depicts a knotted, golden-brown bread twist, typically with white salt flecks emphasizing its twisty, baked shape.

It's shared to express snack cravings, Oktoberfest aspirations, or general affection for all things crunchy, salty, or German—a universal stand-in for breaks and festivities.

Compared to the round 🥯 bagel or lengthy 🥖 baguette bread, the twist here is unmistakable; it's pure pretzel pride, complete with signature salt (though the convolutions may conceal its true, and often debated, softness or crispness).

Look for pretzel or twisted in your emoji menu to find it quickly.

Keywords

Search terms recorded for this emoji in Unicode CLDR.

Details

Hexa1F968
CodepointsU+1F968
HTML (hex)🥨
HTML (decimal)🥨
CLDR short namepretzel
Emoji versionEmoji 5.0 · 2017
Qualificationfully-qualified
CategoryFood & Drink
Subcategoryfood-prepared

Timeline

  1. Emoji 5.0 · 2017Pretzel entered the standard as U+1F968, establishing the codepoint still used today.
  2. 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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