# 🧂 Salt emoji

🧂 Salt is an emoji in the prepared food set of Food & drink. It was added in Emoji 11.0 in 2018. Related words: condiment, flavor, mad, salty, shaker and taste.

- Emoji: 🧂
- Unicode name: salt
- Code points: U+1F9C2
- Category: Food & drink, Prepared food
- Added: Emoji 11.0 (2018)
- GitHub shortcode: :salt:
- Keywords: condiment, flavor, mad, salt, salty, shaker, taste, upset
- Page: https://emojichart.com/salt-emoji

## What it means

Depicting a salt shaker, the small container with a perforated top used to sprinkle salt on food. It covers salt and seasoning, and people also use it for the slang sense of salty, meaning bitter, annoyed or upset, especially after a loss or a slight.

## How to type 🧂

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

## In other languages

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | sal | condimento, sal, salero |
| Français (fr) | sel | condiment, salé, salière, saveur, sel |
| Deutsch (de) | Salz | gesalzen, Geschmack, Gewürz, Salz, salzig, Salzstreuer, Würze, Zutat |
| Italiano (it) | sale | condimento, gusto, salato, sale, saliera, sapore, saporito |
| Português (pt) | sal | comida, condimento, sabor, sal, saleiro, salgado |
| Nederlands (nl) | zout | gezouten, overstuur, smaak, specerij, zout, zoutvaatje |
| Svenska (sv) | salt | krydda, salt, saltkar, saltströare |
| Polski (pl) | sól | przyprawa, słona, słone, słony, smak, sól, solniczka |
| Türkçe (tr) | tuz | baharat, baharatlık, beyaz, çeşni, tuz, tuzlu, tuzluk, yemek |
| Русский (ru) | солонка | вкус, еда, морская соль, приправа, соленый, солонка, соль |
| Українська (uk) | сіль | аромат, приправа, сварка, сіль, сільниця, сільничка, смак, солоний, спеції |
| Ελληνικά (el) | αλάτι | αλάτι, αλατιέρα, αλμυρός, αναστατωμένος, γεύση, έξαλλος, καρύκευμα, μπαχαρικό |
| العربية (ar) | ملح | بهارات, توابل, حائر, رشاشة ملح, مالح, مجنون, مذاق, مستاء, ملّاحة, ملح, مملحة, نكهة |
| עברית (he) | מלח | מלח, תבלין, תבלינים |
| فارسی (fa) | نمک | ادویه, بامزه, بانمک, چاشنی, شور, طعم, مزه, نمک, نمک پاش, نمک‌پاش, نمکدان |
| हिन्दी (hi) | नमक | नमक, नमकीन, मसाला, शेकर |
| বাংলা (bn) | লবণ | আচার, নোনতা, মশলা, মিক্সার, লবণ, লবনদানি, শেকার, সুস্বাদু, স্বাদ |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | garam | asin, bumbu, garam, kecewa, kesal, marah, perisa, rasa, sebal, wadah garam |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | muối | bình lắc, gia vị, muối |
| ไทย (th) | เกลือ | กระปุก, เกลือ, ขวด, เค็ม, เครื่องปรุง, พริกไทย, รสชาติ |
| 日本語 (ja) | 塩 | しょっぱい, 塩, 振りかけ容器, 薬味, 調味料 |
| 한국어 (ko) | 소금 | 당황, 맛, 소금, 양념통, 조미료, 짠, 화남 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 盐 | 佐料瓶, 味道, 咸, 火大, 盐, 调味品, 调味料 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 鹽 | 佐料, 火大, 調味品, 調味瓶, 鹽 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): sout
- Akan (ak): nkyene
- Albanian (sq): kripë
- Amharic (am): ጨው
- Anii (blo): bʊtʊŋa
- Armenian (hy): աղ
- Assamese (as): নিমখ
- Azerbaijani (az): duz
- Bashkir (ba): тоҙ һауыты
- Basque (eu): gatz
- Belarusian (be): соль
- Bosnian (bs): so
- Breton (br): holen
- Bulgarian (bg): сол
- Burmese (my): ဆား
- Cantonese (yue): 鹽
- Cantonese (Simplified) (yue-Hans): 盐
- Catalan (ca): sal
- Cherokee (chr): ᎠᎹ
- Chuvash (cv): тӑвар
- Croatian (hr): sol
- Czech (cs): sůl
- Danish (da): salt
- Estonian (et): sool
- Faroese (fo): salt
- Filipino (fil): asin
- Finnish (fi): suola
- Galician (gl): sal
- Georgian (ka): მარილი
- Gujarati (gu): મીઠું
- Hausa (ha): gishiri
- Hindi (Latin) (hi-Latn): namak
- Hungarian (hu): só
- Icelandic (is): salt
- Igbo (ig): nnu
- Irish (ga): salann
- Javanese (jv): uyah
- Kannada (kn): ಉಪ್ಪು
- Kazakh (kk): тұз
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): تۇز
- Khmer (km): អំបិល
- Konkani (kok): मीठ
- Kyrgyz (ky): туз
- Lao (lo): ເກືອ
- Latvian (lv): sāls
- Lithuanian (lt): druska
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): sol
- Macedonian (mk): сол
- Malay (ms): garam
- Malayalam (ml): ഉപ്പ്
- Marathi (mr): मीठ
- Mongolian (mn): давс
- Nepali (ne): नुन
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Sọlt
- Norwegian (no): salt
- Odia (or): ଲୁଣ
- Oromo (om): ashaboo
- Pashto (ps): مالګه
- Punjabi (pa): ਨਮਕ
- Quechua (qu): kachi
- Romanian (ro): sare
- Romansh (rm): sal
- Sardinian (sc): sale
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): salainn
- Serbian (sr): со
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): so
- Shan (shn): ၵိူဝ်
- Sindhi (sd): لوڻ
- Sinhala (si): ලුණු
- Slovak (sk): soľ
- Slovenian (sl): sol
- Somali (so): cusbo
- Swahili (sw): chumvi
- Tamil (ta): உப்பு
- Telugu (te): ఉప్పు
- Tigrinya (ti): ጨው
- Tongan (to): masima
- Turkmen (tk): duz
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): sel
- Urdu (ur): نمک
- Uzbek (uz): tuzdon
- Welsh (cy): halen
- Yoruba (yo): iyọ̀
- Yoruba (Benin) (yo-BJ): iyɔ̀
- Zulu (zu): salt

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Code points | `U+1F9C2` |
| HTML | `🧂` |
| CSS | `\1F9C2` |
| JavaScript, Rust, Swift | `\u{1F9C2}` |
| Python | `\U0001F9C2` |
| UTF-8 bytes | `F0 9F A7 82` |
| UTF-16 | `D83E DDC2` |
| URL encoded | `%F0%9F%A7%82` |

## Questions

### What does the 🧂 salt emoji mean?

Depicting a salt shaker, the small container with a perforated top used to sprinkle salt on food. It covers salt and seasoning, and people also use it for the slang sense of salty, meaning bitter, annoyed or upset, especially after a loss or a slight.

### How do I type the 🧂 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “salt”. 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 :salt:.

### When was the 🧂 emoji added?

🧂 was added in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018.

### What is the Unicode code point for 🧂?

U+1F9C2. In HTML you can write 🧂, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F9C2}.

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Source: Unicode Emoji 18.0 and Unicode CLDR 49.0.0. Emoji Chart · https://emojichart.com/salt-emoji