# 🧀 Cheese wedge emoji

🧀 Cheese wedge is an emoji in the prepared food set of Food & drink. It was added in Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

- Emoji: 🧀
- Unicode name: cheese wedge
- Code points: U+1F9C0
- Category: Food & drink, Prepared food
- Added: Emoji 1.0 (2015)
- GitHub shortcode: :cheese:
- Keywords: cheese, wedge
- Page: https://emojichart.com/cheese-wedge-emoji

## What it means

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 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

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | cuña de queso | cuña, cuña de queso, queso, trozo |
| Français (fr) | part de fromage | fromage, nourriture, part de fromage |
| Deutsch (de) | Käsestück | Käse, Käsestück |
| Italiano (it) | fetta di formaggio | cibo, fetta di formaggio, formaggio, gruviera |
| Português (pt) | queijo | comida, fome, queijo, queijo suíço |
| Nederlands (nl) | stuk kaas | kaas, plak |
| Svenska (sv) | ostbit | ost, ostbit |
| Polski (pl) | kawałek sera | jedzenie, kawałek sera, ser, szwajcarski, z dziurami, żółty |
| Türkçe (tr) | peynir dilimi | fare, gıda, peynir, peynir dilimi |
| Русский (ru) | сыр | дырки, желтый, кусок, сыр |
| Українська (uk) | кусень сиру | їжа, кусень сиру, сир, шматок сиру |
| Ελληνικά (el) | κομμάτι τυρί | κομμάτι τυρί, τυρί |
| العربية (ar) | قطعة جبن | جبن, جبنة, قطعة جبن |
| עברית (he) | חריץ גבינה | גבינה, חריץ גבינה |
| فارسی (fa) | قاچ پنیر | پنیر, خوراک, خوراکی, غذا, قاچ پنیر |
| हिन्दी (hi) | पनीर का टुकड़ा | पनीर, पनीर का टुकड़ा |
| বাংলা (bn) | চীজ ওয়েজ | খাবার, চিজ, চীজ ওয়েজ |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | irisan keju | irisan, keju, potongan |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | miếng pho mát | miếng pho mát, phô mai |
| ไทย (th) | เนยแข็ง | ชีส, เนยแข็ง |
| 日本語 (ja) | チーズ | チーズ |
| 한국어 (ko) | 치즈 조각 | 치즈, 치즈 덩어리, 치즈 조각 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 芝士 | 奶酪, 芝士, 起司 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 起士 | 乳酪, 起士 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): kaaswiggie
- Akan (ak): kyiisi wɛɛge
- Albanian (sq): copë djathi
- Amharic (am): የቺዝ ቁራጭ
- Anii (blo): waagaashɩ kansaʊ
- Armenian (hy): պանրի կտոր
- Assamese (as): চিজ ৱেজ
- Azerbaijani (az): pendir
- Bashkir (ba): сыр киҫәге
- Basque (eu): gazta zatia
- Belarusian (be): кавалак сыру
- Bosnian (bs): komad sira
- Breton (br): tamm formaj-laezh
- Bulgarian (bg): резен сирене
- Burmese (my): ဒိန်ခဲ အတုံး
- Canadian French (fr-CA): morceau de fromage
- Cantonese (yue): 芝士
- Catalan (ca): tall de formatge
- Cherokee (chr): ᎤᏅᏗ ᎦᏚᏅ ᎠᎦᏯᎷᏴᎢ
- Chuvash (cv): сыр сӑмси
- Croatian (hr): komad sira
- Czech (cs): klínek sýra
- Danish (da): et stykke ost
- Estonian (et): juustutükk
- European Portuguese (pt-PT): fatia de queijo
- Faroese (fo): osta stykki
- Filipino (fil): piraso ng keso
- Finnish (fi): juustopala
- Galician (gl): queixo
- Georgian (ka): ყველის ნაჭერი
- Gujarati (gu): ચીઝનો ત્રિકોણાકાર ટુકડો
- Hausa (ha): mayankin cuku
- Hungarian (hu): sajtdarab
- Icelandic (is): götóttur ostur
- Igbo (ig): achịcha ụtọ ebere ebè
- Irish (ga): ding cháise
- Javanese (jv): keju sairis
- Kalaallisut (kl): et stykke ost
- Kannada (kn): ಚೀಸ್ ವೆಡ್ಜ್
- Kazakh (kk): ірімшік бөлігі
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): ىرىمشىك بولىگى
- Khmer (km): ដុំឈីស
- Kinyarwanda (rw): igisate cya foromaje
- Konkani (kok): चिज वेज
- Kyrgyz (ky): кесилген сыр
- Kʼicheʼ (quc): Jub’a’ Kexu
- Lao (lo): ກ້ອນຊີສ
- Latin American Spanish (es-419): queso
- Latvian (lv): siera šķēle
- Lithuanian (lt): sūrio gabaliukas
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): kusk twarožka
- Luxembourgish (lb): Stéck Kéis
- Macedonian (mk): парче сирење
- Malay (ms): sepotong keju
- Malayalam (ml): പാൽക്കട്ടി
- Maltese (mt): biċċa ġobon
- Marathi (mr): चीज वेज
- Mongolian (mn): зүсэм бяслаг
- Māori (mi): matakahi tīhi
- Nepali (ne): पनिर पिस्ने
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Chíz Wẹj
- Northern Sotho (nso): selai sa tšhese
- Norwegian (no): ostestykke
- Odia (or): ଛେନା ୱେଜ୍
- Oromo (om): muraa baaduu
- Pashto (ps): د پنیر ټوټه
- Punjabi (pa): ਪਨੀਰ ਦਾ ਟੁਕੜਾ
- Punjabi (Arabic) (pa-Arab): پنیر گاڑنا
- Quechua (qu): kʼallpi masaramanta
- Romanian (ro): bucată de brânză
- Romansh (rm): chaschiel
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): staoig càise
- Serbian (sr): кришка сира
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): kriška sira
- Shan (shn): ၼိူၺ်းၶႅင်
- Sindhi (sd): پنير پچر
- Sinhala (si): චීස් පෙත්ත
- Slovak (sk): kus syra
- Slovenian (sl): kos sira
- Somali (so): gabal burcad
- Spanish (United States) (es-US): pedazo de queso
- Swahili (sw): kipande cha jibini
- Tajik (tg): пораи фонашакли панир
- Tamil (ta): பாலாடைக் கட்டி
- Telugu (te): జున్నులో భాగం
- Tigrinya (ti): በርበረ ዌጅ
- Tongan (to): siisi
- Tswana (tn): setena sa tšhisi
- Turkmen (tk): peýnir bölegi
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): kusk twarožka
- Urdu (ur): پنیر کا ٹکڑا
- Uyghur (ug): پىشلاق پارچىسى
- Uzbek (uz): pishloq bo‘lagi
- Welsh (cy): darn o gaws
- Wolof (wo): cëru fromaas
- Xhosa (xh): iverhe yetshizi
- Yoruba (yo): Waara Wedge
- Zulu (zu): ucezu lukashizi

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| 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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Source: Unicode Emoji 18.0 and Unicode CLDR 49.0.0. Emoji Chart · https://emojichart.com/cheese-wedge-emoji