pot of food Emoji
🍲 · U+1F372 · Emoji 0.6
What does the pot of food emoji mean?
Meaning reviewed and updated July 2026 · Unicode data from the official Unicode Standard
A container of cooked food, the 🍲 emoji represents a steaming pot of sustenance, often used to signify a meal, particularly a hearty soup or stew. Figuratively, it can symbolize nourishment, comfort, or hospitality. In slang, it may be used to express hunger or the desire to eat. The emoji's meaning can also extend to represent a home-cooked meal or a sense of warmth and welcoming.
How the pot of food emoji is used
In digital communication, the 🍲 emoji is frequently used in texting and social media captions to convey a casual invitation to eat or to express enthusiasm for a particular type of cuisine. On platforms like TikTok and Instagram, the emoji is often used in comments to react to food-related content, with a tone that is generally playful and appreciative. Tone and usage can vary across generations and platforms, with younger users and those on visual-centric platforms like Instagram and TikTok more likely to use the emoji in a creative or humorous way.
pot of food emoji examples
- Just made a big pot of chicken noodle soup 🍲 want to come over for lunch
- Nothing like a warm bowl of stew 🍲 on a cold winter day
How to copy the pot of food emoji
To use the pot of food emoji, tap the Copy button above, then paste it (long-press then Paste on mobile, or Ctrl+V / Cmd+V on desktop) anywhere you can type: messages, captions, usernames, bios and documents. It copies the real Unicode character (U+1F372), so it works on every app and platform, no download needed.
Also known as
pot of food emoji on different platforms
How the pot of food emoji looks across emoji sets. These designs come from openly-licensed sets (Twemoji, Google Noto, OpenMoji). See image credits.
pot of food Emoji Details
| Emoji | 🍲 |
| Name | pot of food |
| Category | Food & Drink |
| Codepoints | U+1F372 |
| Shortcode | :pot_of_food: |
| Emoji version | 0.6 |
| Unicode version | 0.6 |
pot of food Emoji FAQ
A container of cooked food, the 🍲 emoji represents a steaming pot of sustenance, often used to signify a meal, particularly a hearty soup or stew. Figuratively, it can symbolize nourishment, comfort, or hospitality.
Tap the Copy button at the top of this page, then paste 🍲 wherever you type. Because it copies the real Unicode character, it works in every app on iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac.
It is U+1F372, introduced in Emoji version 0.6 (Unicode 0.6). Its shortcode is :pot_of_food:.
People also search for the pot of food emoji as food, pot, soup, stew.