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🧀U+1F9C0

Cheese wedge emoji

A yellow wedge of cheese, usually drawn with holes like Swiss cheese. It stands for cheese and dairy, pizza, sandwiches and cheese boards, and it recalls the cartoon mouse hunting for a piece of cheese.

Unicode name
cheese wedge
Category
Food & drink, Prepared food
Added
Emoji 1.0 in 2015
Code points
U+1F9C0
Shortcode
:cheese:
Keywords
cheese, wedge

How it looks

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Your device
Cheese wedge emoji in Noto Color Emoji
Noto Color Emoji
Cheese wedge emoji in Twemoji
Twemoji
Cheese wedge emoji in OpenMoji
OpenMoji

How to type 🧀

iPhone and iPad
Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “cheese wedge”.
Android
In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “cheese wedge”.
Mac
Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “cheese wedge”.
Windows
Press Windows + . (period) and type “cheese wedge”.
GitHub
Type :cheese: in an issue, pull request or comment.

In other languages

LanguageNameKeywords
Españolcuña de quesocuña, cuña de queso, queso, trozo
Françaispart de fromagefromage, nourriture, part de fromage
DeutschKäsestückKäse, Käsestück
Italianofetta di formaggiocibo, fetta di formaggio, formaggio, gruviera
Portuguêsqueijocomida, fome, queijo, queijo suíço
Nederlandsstuk kaaskaas, plak
Svenskaostbitost, ostbit
Polskikawałek serajedzenie, kawałek sera, ser, szwajcarski, z dziurami, żółty
Türkçepeynir dilimifare, gıda, peynir, peynir dilimi
Русскийсырдырки, желтый, кусок, сыр
Українськакусень сируїжа, кусень сиру, сир, шматок сиру
Ελληνικάκομμάτι τυρίκομμάτι τυρί, τυρί
العربيةقطعة جبنجبن, جبنة, قطعة جبن
עבריתחריץ גבינהגבינה, חריץ גבינה
فارسیقاچ پنیرپنیر, خوراک, خوراکی, غذا, قاچ پنیر
हिन्दीपनीर का टुकड़ापनीर, पनीर का टुकड़ा
বাংলাচীজ ওয়েজখাবার, চিজ, চীজ ওয়েজ
Bahasa Indonesiairisan kejuirisan, keju, potongan
Tiếng Việtmiếng pho mátmiếng pho mát, phô mai
ไทยเนยแข็งชีส, เนยแข็ง
日本語チーズチーズ
한국어치즈 조각치즈, 치즈 덩어리, 치즈 조각
中文(简体)芝士奶酪, 芝士, 起司
中文(繁體)起士乳酪, 起士
Names in 98 more languages
Afrikaanskaaswiggie
Akankyiisi wɛɛge
Albaniancopë djathi
Amharicየቺዝ ቁራጭ
Aniiwaagaashɩ kansaʊ
Armenianպանրի կտոր
Assameseচিজ ৱেজ
Azerbaijanipendir
Bashkirсыр киҫәге
Basquegazta zatia
Belarusianкавалак сыру
Bosniankomad sira
Bretontamm formaj-laezh
Bulgarianрезен сирене
Burmeseဒိန်ခဲ အတုံး
Canadian Frenchmorceau de fromage
Cantonese芝士
Catalantall de formatge
CherokeeᎤᏅᏗ ᎦᏚᏅ ᎠᎦᏯᎷᏴᎢ
Chuvashсыр сӑмси
Croatiankomad sira
Czechklínek sýra
Danishet stykke ost
Estonianjuustutükk
European Portuguesefatia de queijo
Faroeseosta stykki
Filipinopiraso ng keso
Finnishjuustopala
Galicianqueixo
Georgianყველის ნაჭერი
Gujaratiચીઝનો ત્રિકોણાકાર ટુકડો
Hausamayankin cuku
Hungariansajtdarab
Icelandicgötóttur ostur
Igboachịcha ụtọ ebere ebè
Irishding cháise
Javanesekeju sairis
Kalaallisutet stykke ost
Kannadaಚೀಸ್ ವೆಡ್ಜ್
Kazakhірімшік бөлігі
Kazakh (Arabic)ىرىمشىك بولىگى
Khmerដុំឈីស
Kinyarwandaigisate cya foromaje
Konkaniचिज वेज
Kyrgyzкесилген сыр
KʼicheʼJub’a’ Kexu
Laoກ້ອນຊີສ
Latin American Spanishqueso
Latviansiera šķēle
Lithuaniansūrio gabaliukas
Lower Sorbiankusk twarožka
LuxembourgishStéck Kéis
Macedonianпарче сирење
Malaysepotong keju
Malayalamപാൽക്കട്ടി
Maltesebiċċa ġobon
Marathiचीज वेज
Mongolianзүсэм бяслаг
Māorimatakahi tīhi
Nepaliपनिर पिस्ने
Nigerian PidginChíz Wẹj
Northern Sothoselai sa tšhese
Norwegianostestykke
Odiaଛେନା ୱେଜ୍
Oromomuraa baaduu
Pashtoد پنیر ټوټه
Punjabiਪਨੀਰ ਦਾ ਟੁਕੜਾ
Punjabi (Arabic)پنیر گاڑنا
Quechuakʼallpi masaramanta
Romanianbucată de brânză
Romanshchaschiel
Scottish Gaelicstaoig càise
Serbianкришка сира
Serbian (Latin)kriška sira
Shanၼိူၺ်းၶႅင်
Sindhiپنير پچر
Sinhalaචීස් පෙත්ත
Slovakkus syra
Sloveniankos sira
Somaligabal burcad
Spanish (United States)pedazo de queso
Swahilikipande cha jibini
Tajikпораи фонашакли панир
Tamilபாலாடைக் கட்டி
Teluguజున్నులో భాగం
Tigrinyaበርበረ ዌጅ
Tongansiisi
Tswanasetena sa tšhisi
Turkmenpeýnir bölegi
Upper Sorbiankusk twarožka
Urduپنیر کا ٹکڑا
Uyghurپىشلاق پارچىسى
Uzbekpishloq bo‘lagi
Welshdarn o gaws
Wolofcëru fromaas
Xhosaiverhe yetshizi
YorubaWaara Wedge
Zuluucezu lukashizi

Codes

Code points
U+1F9C0
HTML
🧀
CSS
\1F9C0
JavaScript, Rust, Swift
\u{1F9C0}
Python
\U0001F9C0
UTF-8 bytes
F0 9F A7 80
UTF-16
D83E DDC0
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A7%80

Questions

What does the 🧀 cheese wedge emoji mean?

A yellow wedge of cheese, usually drawn with holes like Swiss cheese. It stands for cheese and dairy, pizza, sandwiches and cheese boards, and it recalls the cartoon mouse hunting for a piece of cheese.

How do I type the 🧀 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “cheese wedge”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :cheese:.

When was the 🧀 emoji added?

🧀 was added in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015.

What is the Unicode code point for 🧀?

U+1F9C0. In HTML you can write 🧀, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F9C0}.

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