The cheese wedge is the internet’s golden triangle of dairy delight, a snack-sized shout-out to Swiss-meets-cheddar culture. On Apple/iOS, it’s a glossy warm yellow-orange wedge with round “eyes” (holes), a slightly darker rind, and a three‑quarter angle that makes it look freshly sliced and dangerously nibble-able.
People drop this emoji for charcuterie flexes, mac ’n’ cheese cravings, and those cinematic pizza cheese pulls that deserve their own Oscars. It doubles as a cue for “say cheese” in photo invites, and as slang for money—aka getting that cheddar—when payday finally hits. Meme-wise, it teams up with the mouse or rat emoji for cartoon chaos (Tom & Jerry, Ratatouille), and stars in TikTok’s “cheese tax” when pets demand a bite. Socially, it roasts corny lines (“that’s cheesy”), flips flirty with groan-worthy puns like “you look gouda,” and broadcasts cozy comfort-food energy from late-night fridge raids to keto confessions. It even carries regional pride—hello, Wisconsin cheeseheads—while also working as an ironic stamp for cringe‑but‑cute moments or a dramatic reaction to a life-changing grilled cheese.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 308 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) | 1f9c0 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9C0 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129472 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0x80 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A7 80 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 247 200 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDC0 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83eddc0 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56768 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9C0 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9C0 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129472 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9C0" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa7\x80" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDC0" |
