🧀 cheese wedge Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the cheese wedge Emoji 🧀 Mean?

A bright yellow triangular wedge of Swiss-style cheese with the iconic holes scattered through it — the cheese wedge emoji is a cartoon-classic that reads instantly as "cheese" across every platform. Texters use it for charcuterie boards, cheese-board photography, wine-and-cheese pairings, and French or Italian cuisine posts. Mac-and-cheese content, grilled-cheese posts, and pizza-topping captions all pull it in.

Wine country travel posts adopt it heavily, alongside the grape and wine emojis. Beyond literal food, "cheese" carries the slang meaning of money (especially in hip-hop), and the emoji gets used in hustle and finance content. "Cheesy" as in corny, cringey, or over-the-top sentimental also pulls it in — eye-rolling jokes about cheesy pickup lines, cheesy romance movies, and cheesy dad humor all reach for it.

Wisconsin Cheesehead fans and Packers football posts adopt it. Mouse-and-cheese cartoons and Tom-and-Jerry references use it. Added to Unicode 8.0 in 2015, the cheese wedge has been one of the most versatile food emojis ever since.