Thanksgiving symbols and meanings
Turkey is the star: the centrepiece of the dinner and the shorthand for the whole holiday. is the drumstick everyone wants. Pie stands for pumpkin, pecan and apple pie; there is no pumpkin-pie emoji, so does the job.
are the harvest, the reason a feast in late autumn made sense in the first place. Corn in particular recalls the crops the Wampanoag people grew and shared with the Plymouth colonists in 1621.
set the season. In the United States Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November; in Canada it is the second Monday of October, which is why doubles as the Canadian version.
Thanksgiving dinner emoji
Build the table from the food emoji: or for turkey, and for sweet potatoes and mash, or for green beans, and for sides, and for rolls and butter, or for ham, then for dessert. Unicode has no cranberry sauce or stuffing emoji.
To set the scene, add for the table, for the toast, for coffee with pie and for the centrepiece. is the face before dinner; is the food coma after.
Gratitude emoji for Thanksgiving messages
Thanksgiving is also about saying thanks, so belong in the message itself. Orange and brown hearts carry autumn colors without being as heavy as , which makes them easy to send to coworkers, neighbours and the family group chat.
cover coming home and the people around the table.
Football, the parade and Black Friday
The day has its rituals beyond the meal. are for the NFL games played every Thanksgiving, for the giant balloons of the Macy's parade in New York (held since 1924), and for Black Friday shopping the next morning.
and mark which Thanksgiving you mean, and is a common stand-in for the Mayflower, since Unicode has no Pilgrim emoji.
Symbols
58Click a symbol to copy it and open its page.
How to use them
5 situationsClick to copyThanksgiving Emoji combos
14Worth knowing
- The turkey emoji only arrived in 2015 (Unicode 8.0), and the pie in 2017 (Unicode 10.0). Before that people sent and .
- Benjamin Franklin never proposed the turkey as the national bird, but in a 1784 letter to his daughter he called the turkey "a much more respectable bird" than the bald eagle.
- Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863; Congress fixed it to the fourth Thursday of November in 1941.
- and the Turkish flag have nothing to do with each other, but because the country and the bird share an English name, searches for "turkey emoji" often turn up both.
Questions people ask
7How do I copy and paste Thanksgiving emoji?
Tap or click any emoji above and it is copied; paste it into your message, caption or card. The most used are .
What are cute Thanksgiving emoji combos?
for a greeting, for "grateful for you", for the food coma and for a cozy autumn afternoon.
What does the turkey emoji mean?
Usually Thanksgiving, the dinner or the holiday itself. Out of season it can mean a turkey sandwich, hunting, or calling someone a goofball. The country Türkiye is , not .
What are the symbols of Thanksgiving?
The turkey , the harvest (corn , wheat , apples ), the cornucopia, autumn leaves , pumpkin pie and the Mayflower . Unicode has no cornucopia or Pilgrim emoji.
Is there a pumpkin emoji for Thanksgiving?
There is no plain pumpkin. is a carved jack-o'-lantern and reads as Halloween; for pumpkin pie use , or if you want to be explicit.
What emoji should I use for Canadian Thanksgiving?
. Canadian Thanksgiving is on the second Monday of October, so the maple leaf does double duty for autumn and Canada.
How do I say Happy Thanksgiving with emoji?
Write it and add a short row: "Happy Thanksgiving ". Keep it to three or four emoji so the words stay readable.
