🫕 fondue Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the fondue Emoji 🫕 Mean?

A bubbling pot of melted cheese with a long fondue fork dipping a piece of bread into the gooey golden mixture — the fondue emoji captures the Swiss communal-dining classic in one mouthwatering icon. Texters use it for fondue-restaurant content (Melting Pot, Swiss-chalet experiences), winter-ski-resort dining posts, romantic-date-night captions, and Swiss-cuisine references. Cheese-fondue and chocolate-fondue content both pull it in.

Beyond traditional Swiss fondue, the emoji represents Japanese shabu-shabu and Chinese hot pot to some degree, though those broth-based dipping cuisines don't have their own dedicated emoji. Communal-dining and shared-meal content adopts it for the social-eating vibe. Alpine ski-trip content from Switzerland, France, and Austria uses it heavily during winter.

Romantic-anniversary and Valentine's Day chocolate-fondue dessert content also pulls it in. Added to Unicode 13.0 in 2020 as part of a major food-emoji expansion that filled global-cuisine gaps, the fondue finally gave dippers their dedicated icon. The pot-and-fork design is unmistakable to anyone who has been to a fondue restaurant.