The pizza emoji is the unofficial banner of hunger, celebration, and shameless carb-loading—perfect for group chats that start with “so, what are we eating?” and end with collective food coma. It signals everything from late-night study fuel to “I’ll buy the team lunch if we ship this feature,” and it doubles as a peace offering after hot takes in the pineapple-on-pizza debate. Toss it in a text to bribe friends to show up, congratulate someone on a win (pizza party, obviously), or to confess you’ve entered your self-care era via extra cheese.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a single triangular slice angled slightly to the right, with a golden-brown crust, glossy red pepperoni coins, and gooey yellow cheese dripping dramatically off the tip—basically a tiny cheese pull you can copy-paste. The colors are bright and appetizing, with clean cartoon shading that makes it look hot, ready, and one text away from delivery. Other platforms vary the toppings, but the iOS version screams classic pepperoni slice at first glance.
Online, the pizza emoji plays many roles: meme shorthand for “I’m starving,” flirty “we should split a slice,” sarcastic “guess we’re having pizza again” after a burnt dinner, and dramatic “all I need is pizza and sleep” energy. It’s culturally loaded too—think Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles marathons, New York street folds, game nights, Super Bowl spreads, and the eternal “pineapple?” referendum. Drop it as an RSVP for a party, a victory lap after leg day, or the universal cry for help: send pizza, pls.
Definition
A pizza is sometimes referred to as a "pie" and was invented in Italy. A savory (salty and spicy) pie. A whole pizza is circular (round) but when served, it is generally cut into eight or more pieces. A pizza is made with dough that is customarily spun in the air until it is flat, thin, and round. The dough is then covered in tomato sauce and covered with cheese and other toppings before it is baked to cook the dough and melt the cheese. Cheese and pepperoni pizzas are the most common and popular pizzas. The Apple version emoji shows a pepperoni slice of pizza.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
220 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:pizza:
Keywords
Pizza, Pie, New York, Italian, Italy, Slice, Peperoni
Previous Names:
Slice of Pizza
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Food Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Foods
Unicode Subcategory
Food Symbols
Names & Annotations
SLICE OF PIZZA
Symbol Information
U+1F355 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-975
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[ピザ]
KDDI
#745 ピザ 「piza」 U+EB3B SJIS-F3FC JIS-7A7E
Softbank
[ピザ]
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)
1f355
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F355
Decimal Code Point(s)
127829
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0x95
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8D 95
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 215 225
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF55
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf55
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57173
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F355
UTF-32 Hex
01F355
UTF-32 Dec
127829
Python Src
u"\U0001F355"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8d\x95"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF55"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
