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food-prepared

Salt

1F9C2 ยท U+1F9C2 ยท 🧂

What it means

The Salt Emoji ๐Ÿง‚ presents a small, translucent shaker filled with fine, white salt grains, capped with a perforated gray lid that suggests easy sprinkling and season-to-taste artistry.

Widely used in conversations about cooking, seasoning, or (more recently) to express feelings of being bitter, salty, or mildly annoyed after an online squabble.

It pairs naturally with ๐Ÿงˆ butter in recipes but stands out in the emoji line-up thanks to its association with both the culinary and emotional worlds (a little sodium sometimes brings out the flavor in both).

For quick access, use "salt," "shaker," or "condiment"โ€”even "salty"โ€”in your search field.

Keywords

Search terms recorded for this emoji in Unicode CLDR.

Details

Hexa1F9C2
CodepointsU+1F9C2
HTML (hex)🧂
HTML (decimal)🧂
CLDR short namesalt
Emoji versionEmoji 11.0 ยท 2018 โ†’
Qualificationfully-qualified
CategoryFood & Drink
Subcategoryfood-prepared

Timeline

  1. Emoji 11.0 ยท 2018Salt entered the standard as U+1F9C2, 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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