The pretzel emoji is a glossy, golden-brown twisted knot sprinkled with chunky salt, basically a snack selfie. On Apple/iOS it looks plump and butter-brushed, with shiny highlights on the rounded loops and crisp white salt crystals dotting the surface, shown front-on so the classic over-under twist is unmistakable. People drop it when they’re craving carbs, flexing their mall-walk snack, or pairing it with beer for Oktoberfest energy. It also stands in for NYC street carts, baseball game munchies, and the eternal mustard vs. cheese dip debate. If you can practically smell Auntie Anne’s after seeing it, you’re not alone.
Beyond food chat, it’s meme fuel: “my brain’s in a pretzel” for twisted logic, plot twists, or knotty life problems. It doubles as a pun for “feeling salty,” jokes about yoga twists and back pain, and even a flirty “let’s get knotty” when you’re feeling bold. Pair it with a beer, salt, or the German flag for instant Bavarian vibes, or use it ironically when a corporate email ties you in knots. Culturally, the pretzel’s old-school roots in Central Europe make it a cozy comfort icon online, but on your screen it mainly screams warm, salty, shareable joy.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 582 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 | |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 11 - 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) | 1f968 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F968 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129384 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA5 0xA8 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A5 A8 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 245 250 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD68 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd68 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56680 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F968 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F968 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129384 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F968" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa5\xa8" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD68" |
