U+1F9C2 "🧂" Salt Shaker Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🧂
U+1F9C2 "🧂" Salt Shaker is a pictographic representation of a classic tabletop salt shaker, typically depicted as a small container with a domed or cylindrical body and a perforated cap for sprinkling salt. Officially added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of Unicode 11.0, this emoji is commonly used in digital communication to symbolize salt, seasoning, or cooking, and can also carry metaphorical meanings such as adding flavor to a conversation or, in internet slang, representing the expression of being "salty" or annoyed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9C2 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Salt Shaker |
| 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 0xA7 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDC2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9C2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddc2 |