What 🍕 means
🍕 is the pizza emoji, filed under Food & Drink in the food-prepared subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 6.0 (2010).
How it is encoded
🍕 is a single code point, U+1F355.
It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.
Casual and friendly: more takeaway plans than formal dinner invitation.
A pizza suggestion is not proof of a date.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsWith a food photo or restaurant recommendation
The pizza itself, or a place worth trying.
🍕?
A casual proposal: shall we get pizza or eat together?
After a rough day or canceled plans
Comfort food or an easy replacement plan.
Combination ideas
3Suggestion: pizza-and-beer night.
Suggestion: love for pizza, not necessarily for the recipient.
Suggestion: pizza and a film, when the chat is about evening plans.
Worth knowing
- Pizza as most people picture it took shape in Naples. In 2017 UNESCO listed the craft of the Neapolitan pizzaiuolo, the pizza maker, as intangible cultural heritage: the skill, not the dish.
Questions people ask
1Why does pizza look different on WhatsApp?
Different artwork, same emoji. WhatsApp and other apps draw their own toppings; those details aren't a topping order. Spell out what you want if you're ordering.
How to type 🍕
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “pizza”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “pizza”.
Chat apps
:pizza:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🍕Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🍕
HTML hex
🍕
CSS content
content: "\1F355";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%8D%95
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.