U+1FAD4 "🫔" Tamale Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🫔
U+1FAD4 "🫔" Tamale is a pictographic representation of a classic Mesoamerican dish consisting of masa, a dough made from corn, which is typically filled with meats, cheeses, fruits, or chilies and then wrapped in a corn husk or banana leaf before being steamed. Introduced to the Unicode Standard in 2021 as part of Emoji 14.0, the character is used in digital communication to symbolize the food itself, cultural celebrations, comfort, or the holiday season, especially in contexts relating to Latin American and Southwestern United States cuisines.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FAD4 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Tamale |
| Block | Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A |
| 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 0xAB 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDED4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FAD4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uded4 |