🍔 hamburger Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the hamburger Emoji 🍔 Mean?

A classic stacked burger with a sesame-seed bun, a thick brown beef patty, melted yellow cheese, green lettuce, red tomato, and sometimes a slice of pickle — the hamburger emoji is the most iconic fast-food icon on the entire keyboard. Texters use it for cookout content, burger-joint posts, fast-food cravings, and BBQ captions. American food, In-N-Out, Shake Shack, and Five Guys content all pull it in.

Beyond literal food, the hamburger emoji became the subject of a viral 2017 design controversy when Google's Android rendering placed the cheese under the patty instead of on top, sparking widespread debate about correct cheese placement that even Google's CEO commented on. Veggie-burger, plant-based-burger, and Impossible-burger content also adopts it. International burger chains and trips to Burger King, McDonald's, and Wendy's all get tagged with it.

Added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010 as part of the original food emoji set, the hamburger remains one of the most universally recognized and most-used food icons on the keyboard. A genuine emoji-keyboard heavyweight.