The poultry leg emoji is the internet’s golden-brown drumstick—crispy skin, bone peeking out, pure feast energy. People drop it to announce dinner plans, flex a cheat day, or reply “winner winner chicken dinner” when something goes their way. It doubles as a comfort‑food mood marker for game day spreads, state‑fair turkey legs, Thanksgiving leftovers, or that 11 p.m. rotisserie run.
On Apple/iOS, it looks like a plump teardrop of roasted perfection, with a shiny glaze and subtle dimples on the skin. The white bone knob juts out on the right, and the whole piece sits at a slight three‑quarter angle like it just rolled off the grill. Warm amber‑brown shading and a glossy highlight make it feel juicy enough to tap twice.
Online, 🍗 can be playful or petty: paired with a salt shaker to say “season your takes,” or dropped as a “send foods, not nudes” thirst trap for snacks. Gym bros use it as a protein badge; pun‑lovers spam it on “leg day”; and foodies combine it with fire and drool emojis to signal maximum crave. It also works as a flirty invite—“come over, I’ll feed you”—or as dramatic reaction when someone posts a tragic salad: respond with a single 🍗 like, “be serious.”
Definition
A cooked poultry (chicken) thigh (leg). Dark meat served with the bone still attached. Dark meat is more moist and greasy when compared to the white meat portions of a chicken, such as the breast meat. People love to eat fried chicken. There are lots of fast food establishment that specialize in fried chicken, such a Kentucky Fried Chicken and Popeye's.
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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)
253 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
:poultry_leg:
Keywords
Poultry, Leg, Chicken, Fried
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
POULTRY LEG
Symbol Information
U+1F357 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-976
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[チキン]
KDDI
#746 ターキー 「taakii」 U+EB3C SJIS-F440 JIS-7B21
Softbank
[チキン]
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)
1f357
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F357
Decimal Code Point(s)
127831
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0x97
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8D 97
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 215 227
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF57
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf57
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57175
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F357
UTF-32 Hex
01F357
UTF-32 Dec
127831
Python Src
u"\U0001F357"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8d\x97"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF57"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
