Breakfast Emoji

🥞 Pancakes is the one most people mean by "the breakfast emoji": a short stack with a pat of butter and syrup running down the side. It arrived in Unicode 9.0 (2016) together with 🥓 Bacon, 🥚 Egg, 🥐 Croissant, 🥖 Baguette, 🥛 Glass of Milk and 🥑 Avocado, the release that turned the emoji keyboard from a Japanese menu into a Western breakfast table. 🧇 Waffle and 🧈 Butter came later, in 2019, 🥯 Bagel in 2018.

🍳 is officially named Cooking, but every major platform draws an egg frying in a pan, so in practice it is the fried-egg emoji and the natural partner of 🥓. 🥚 Egg is the whole, uncooked egg: use it for boiled eggs, for baking and for Easter, and 🍳 when the egg is on the plate. 🍞 Bread is a loaf with one slice cut, 🥐 Croissant and 🥯 Bagel speak for the bakery, and 🥣 Bowl with Spoon covers cereal, oatmeal, porridge and granola at once. ☕ Hot Beverage is coffee or tea, whichever the reader drinks; the Coffee & Tea Emoji collection goes deeper into cups, pots and the "spill the tea" meaning.

Breakfast emoji combos: good morning, brunch and a breakfast date

A breakfast emoji combo works best as a plate, not a list: one hot thing, one bread or bowl, one drink. 🥞🍳🥓 is the diner breakfast, ☕🥐🍊 the café one, 🥣🍓🫐 the healthy one. Add 🌅 or ⏰ at the front and it becomes a good-morning message: "🌅☕🥐 morning!" says more than the word does. For the full story of morning greetings, see Good Morning & Good Night Emoji.

For brunch, swap the alarm clock for something slower: 🥞🥂🍓 or 🍳🥑🍞🥂 read as a late, sociable breakfast with a mimosa. A breakfast date is 🥐☕💕 or 🧇🍓☕; a message to the person cooking is 🧑‍🍳🥞😋. Reactions are easy too: 😋 Face Savoring Food means it was good, 🤤 Drooling Face that you want it, 🥱 Yawning Face that coffee has to come first.

A full English, a continental and breakfasts around the world

The emoji keyboard can set most of the world's breakfast tables. The full English is 🍳🥓🫘🍅🍄‍🟫🍞: fried eggs, bacon, baked beans, grilled tomato, mushrooms and toast (🫘 Beans was added in 2021 and 🍄‍🟫 Brown Mushroom in 2023, so on an older phone they may show as boxes). An American diner plate adds 🥞 and 🥔 for hash browns; a continental breakfast is 🥐🥖🧈🫙☕, croissant, baguette, butter, jam and coffee, with 🧀 and 🥪 where the hotel buffet is generous.

Further east the morning looks different: a Japanese breakfast is 🍚🍙🍵, rice, a rice ball and green tea; dim sum brunch is 🥟🍵; an Indian morning can be 🫓🍵, a flatbread with chai. In Argentina and Uruguay it is 🧉🥐, mate with medialunas, the small sweet croissants; in Germany a pretzel 🥨 with butter is a normal breakfast. Pancakes have their own day in Britain and Ireland: on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent, they are eaten thin with lemon and sugar, so 🥞🍋 is the Pancake Day combo there.

Breakfast symbols, text versions and how to type them

There is no text-only pancake, but a few breakfast symbols survive where emoji are stripped. ☕ is the oldest character on this page, added to Unicode in 2003 as a plain text symbol; written with the text variation selector it stays a small black cup, ☕︎, which suits a bio or a username. ⛾ is a map symbol for a café, and ☼ a plain sun for a good-morning line such as ☼ ☕︎ ☼. The Sun Emoji & Symbols collection has more suns.

To find these on a phone, open the emoji keyboard and search "breakfast", "egg" or "pancake"; on Windows press the Windows key and the period, on a Mac Control, Command and Space. In Slack and on GitHub the shortcodes are :pancakes:, :fried_egg:, :bacon:, :croissant: and :coffee:; Discord calls 🍳 :cooking:, its official name.