U+1F356 "🍖" Meat on Bone Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🍖
U+1F356 "🍖" Meat on Bone is a pictographic representation of a large, browned piece of meat attached to a white bone, typically depicted as a ham hock, turkey leg, or pork chop in a stylized cartoon form. It is most often used in digital communication to symbolize food, specifically hearty or grilled meats, as well as concepts like cooking, dining, feasting, or even hunting and wilderness themes, depending on context. Approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to the Emoji 1.0 set in 2015, this character appears across platforms with slight variations in color and detail, but consistently evokes a savory, informal, and often celebratory culinary experience.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F356 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Meat on Bone |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🍖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🍖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDF56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F356 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udf56 |