On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot a dependable silver-gray pot with its lid just ajar, revealing a warm brown–orange stew flecked with carrot cubes and little green bits, all rendered at a crisp three-quarter angle with glossy highlights. No face, no gimmicks—just a wholesome, steaming illustration that practically wafts aroma and taps straight into grandma’s kitchen memories and Sunday sauce traditions. It doubles as a global nod to stews everywhere—gumbo, curry, chowder, hot pot—and can even pass as a budget “witch’s brew” when the cauldron emoji feels a bit too extra.
In meme-speak, it’s a drama stand-in: drop it when you’re about to stir the pot or when the group chat is already simmering with hot takes. Bonus points in autumn, when it screams soup season and blanket-core comfort.
More broadly, the pot of food emoji is the internet’s cozy kitchen—a lidded pot brimming with hearty-stew energy, perfect for signaling home-cooking, meal-prep flexes, or that “I make a mean chili” vibe. It shows up to say what’s cooking (literally), to extend a low-key flirty dinner invite, or to boast about your slow-cooker masterpiece. Use it earnestly to share recipes, ironically to hint at brewing gossip, or dramatically when you’re letting an argument simmer instead of boil over.
Definition
Many different types of foods can be in this pot of food. Also called nabemono. The Japanese have many stew- and soup-like dishes that would fit into this category. A Japanese version of a fondue pot, but instead of cheese, the pot in the middle of the table is full of a stew or soup from which everyone serves into smaller individual bowls. A pot of food makes for a communal and family eating environment.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
510 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:stew:
Keywords
Stew, Hearty, Soup, Thick, Hot, Pot
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Food Symbols
Editorial Comment
Most likely rice! Am I right? A meal in a bowl probably rice and other vegetables. Either way you get to eat tonight emoji. Yes! iEmoji old Name: Steaming Bowl
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Foods
Unicode Subcategory
Food Symbols
Names & Annotations
POT OF FOOD Temporary Notes: hot pot, nabe
Symbol Information
U+1F372 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-970
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[鍋]
KDDI
#439 鍋 U+EABE SJIS-F392 JIS-7972
Softbank
#186 #old347 なべ 「nabe」 U+E34D SJIS-F9ED
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - 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)
1f372
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F372
Decimal Code Point(s)
127858
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0xB2
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8D B2
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 215 262
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF72
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf72
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57202
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F372
UTF-32 Hex
01F372
UTF-32 Dec
127858
Python Src
u"\U0001F372"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8d\xb2"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF72"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
