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food-prepared

Sandwich

1F96A · U+1F96A · 🥪

What it means

The Sandwich Emoji 🥪 shows two slices of lightly toasted bread packed with layers of green lettuce, red tomato, and either cheese or deli meat peeking out in vibrant colors.

People use it to talk about lunch plans, quick meals, picnics, and sometimes to make points about choices being as easy as picking a sandwich filling; it's also a favorite among snack fans and food-themed group chats.

Unlike the Hot Dog Emoji 🌭 or the Taco Emoji 🌮, the sandwich is open to interpretation—sub, club, veggie, or classic ham-and-cheese—so everyone wins (the only firm rule here: two slices of bread, not one folded over!).

Try searching for sandwich, bread, lunch, snack, deli, sub, club sandwich, or panini to serve it up on your emoji keyboard.

Keywords

Search terms recorded for this emoji in Unicode CLDR.

Details

Hexa1F96A
CodepointsU+1F96A
HTML (hex)🥪
HTML (decimal)🥪
CLDR short namesandwich
Emoji versionEmoji 5.0 · 2017
Qualificationfully-qualified
CategoryFood & Drink
Subcategoryfood-prepared

Timeline

  1. Emoji 5.0 · 2017Sandwich entered the standard as U+1F96A, 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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