The meat on bone emoji is the classic cartoon ham—think Renaissance fair feast meets Saturday-morning anime. On Apple devices, it looks like a glossy, roasted-brown ham with a pink cross‑section on the left, a neat white circle where the bone shows through, and a chunky white bone poking out on the right. The highlight and shading give it that just-basted, shiny vibe, like it was stolen straight from a medieval banquet table or Luffy’s lunch in One Piece. People drop it to signal carnivore cravings, BBQ invites, post-gym protein flexes, or to say “this topic has some real meat.”
Online, it doubles as a playful “bring the substance” reaction to long threads, recipe wins, or beefy hot takes—pun fully intended. It can be sent ironically when someone offers zero details (“where’s the meat?”) or as a cheeky dog-treat shoutout for pups who deserve a prize. Don’t confuse it with the poultry leg emoji: 🍖 is ham-style meat with a visible bone core, while 🍗 is your fried-drumstick moment. Culturally, it nods to caveman cartoons, Flintstones-level feasts, and that universal fantasy of tearing into a comically oversized slab of dinner.
Definition
Mystery meat cooked and still on the bone. Many different cuts of meat are served still connected to the bone of the animal from which they came. T-bones, ribs, pork shoulder, ham hock, lamb chops, chicken wings, and bovine (cow) leg are commonly cooked with the bone still attached. This emoji is most likely a bovine leg. Sometimes viewed a primal or potential caveman-like, but the bone allows people to hold the meat and eat without utensils and only their bare hands.
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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)
337 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
:meat_on_bone:
Keywords
Meat, Bone, Animal, Cooked
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
MEAT ON BONE Temporary Notes: food
Symbol Information
U+1F356 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-972
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[肉]
KDDI
#160 食事２ U+E4C4 SJIS-F69D JIS-757D
Softbank
[肉]
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)
1f356
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F356
Decimal Code Point(s)
127830
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0x96
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8D 96
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 215 226
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF56
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf56
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57174
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F356
UTF-32 Hex
01F356
UTF-32 Dec
127830
Python Src
u"\U0001F356"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8d\x96"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF56"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
