U+1F944 "🥄" Spoon Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

🥄

U+1F944 "🥄" Spoon is a digital symbol representing the common utensil used for eating, serving, or stirring food, typically depicted as a silver or metallic spoon angled diagonally in most platform designs. Introduced as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and later added to Emoji 1.0, it is often used in text messages and social media to signify eating, cooking, or serving dishes like soup, cereal, or ice cream. The spoon emoji can also carry metaphorical meanings related to "spooning" as an act of cuddling or be used in medical contexts for medicine dosage. Its design varies slightly across different operating systems, with some showing a more rounded bowl and others a longer handle, but it consistently maintains the recognizable silhouette of a standard table spoon.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F944
Version Added 9.0
Name Spoon
Block Supplemental 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 0xA5 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83E 0xDD44
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F944
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83e\udd44

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other
Emoji Yes
Emoji Presentation Yes
Extended Pictographic Yes