U+1F9C4 "🧄" Garlic Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F9C4 "🧄" Garlic is a pictographic symbol representing the pungent bulb vegetable commonly used in cooking worldwide, officially added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block. This emoji typically depicts a whole head of garlic with multiple cloves and greenish stems, and it is used in digital communication to reference cooking, Italian cuisine, vampire folklore, or the strong flavor and health benefits associated with garlic. Its inclusion reflects the broader trend of incorporating diverse food items into the standard emoji set to better represent global culinary practices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9C4 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Garlic |
| 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 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9C4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddc4 |