Online, 🍯 pulls double duty as “honeypot” slang—a tempting lure—so it pops up under thirst traps, catfish punchlines, and cybersecurity memes about decoy servers snagging bad actors. Pair it with the bee emoji for instant Winnie‑the‑Pooh vibes, or stack it with bread, pancakes, and biscuits for peak carb propaganda. It flexes a sarcastic side too: “quite the sticky situation,” or “look at you chasing the honey.” Some folks use it to boast about a win or windfall—the “honey pot” as prize money—while wellness types reach for it when sore throats strike and lemon‑honey tea season returns.
Visually, it’s hard to mistake: warm yellows and oranges with glossy shine, and that little wooden dipper you can almost hear clink. On Apple/iOS, the emoji is a rounded amber jar with sleek gradients, honey spilling over the rim, and a wooden honey dipper resting at a slight angle—basically a tabletop still life begging for toast.
In everyday chat, the honey pot stands in for sweetness, comfort, and “you’re my honey,” making it equally at home in flirty nicknames and grandma‑level warmth. It tags tea time, baking plans, brunch snapshots, and anything that wants a golden, gooey aura, delivering a feel that’s cozy, sugary, and just a touch mischievous.
Definition
Prior to the widespread use of plastic, many people stored honey in a honey pot. The stripped design and shape of a honey pot was easily recognizable. Honey is made by bees, specifically honey bees. Most people think of A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh when they see a honey pot. Pooh Bear stored all his honey in honey pots. Pooh Bear is to honey as Cookie Monster is to cookies. Both of which are childhood favorites.
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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)
365 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
:honey_pot:
Keywords
Honey, Pot, Bees, Pooh, Bear
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
HONEY POT
Symbol Information
U+1F36F proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-97E
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[ハチミツ]
KDDI
#775 蜂蜜ポット 「蜂蜜potsuto」 U+EB59 SJIS-F45D JIS-7B3E
Softbank
[ハチミツ]
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)
1f36f
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F36F
Decimal Code Point(s)
127855
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0xAF
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8D AF
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 215 257
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF6F
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf6f
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57199
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F36F
UTF-32 Hex
01F36F
UTF-32 Dec
127855
Python Src
u"\U0001F36F"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8d\xaf"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF6F"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
