A crunchy salute to snack o’clock, the taco emoji is the universal signal for “I’m hungry and I have priorities.” People drop it to plan Taco Tuesday, rave about a perfect taquería find, or celebrate small wins with big flavor. It also works as a playful bribe in group chats—promise tacos, watch attendance soar.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a right‑facing hard‑shell corn taco: a golden yellow, speckled shell hugging seasoned beef, shredded cheese, bright green lettuce, and little red tomato cubes. The 3/4 angle makes it look freshly plated, with a tidy, slightly glossy, almost photoreal style that quietly screams crunch. No salsa drip on iOS—just that neat, stacked filling everyone recognizes from the emoji snack aisle.
Online, it’s shorthand for late‑night cravings, road‑trip taco truck runs, and “guac costs extra” coping humor. It fuels memes about the eternal street‑taco‑versus‑hard‑shell debate and the weekly battle cry of Taco Tuesday (shoutout to the LeBron meme energy). Flirtatiously, it can wink at a “spicy mood” or serve as a coy dinner‑date hint; sarcastically, it says this meeting could’ve been a taco. Fun fact: a fast‑food petition helped push for a taco emoji, and it finally landed in 2015—proof the internet will unite for salsa. Use it when you’re hangry, celebratory, or just trying to taco ’bout it without typing a paragraph.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 532 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🌮 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🌮 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🌮 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🌮 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f32e |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F32E |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127790 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0xAE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8C AE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 214 256 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDF2E |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdf2e |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57134 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F32E |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F32E |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127790 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F32E" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8c\xae" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDF2E" |
