🥡 takeout box Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the takeout box Emoji 🥡 Mean?

A white folded paper takeout container with a red Chinese-restaurant pagoda design and a wire handle on top — the takeout box emoji captures one of the most iconic American-Chinese-restaurant pieces of packaging on the planet. The classic Oyster Pail design is universally recognizable. Texters use it for takeout-night content, delivery-app posts, Chinese-takeout cravings, and Friday-night-no-cooking captions.

Sex and the City fans drop it constantly because the show's NYC-takeout aesthetic featured these boxes prominently. New York City and Chinatown food content adopts it heavily. Beyond Chinese takeout, the emoji has expanded to represent any takeout or delivery food, since the Oyster Pail container is used for many cuisines.

Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Grubhub delivery posts pull it in. Lo mein, kung pao chicken, fried rice, and General Tso's chicken takeout-night photos use it constantly. Some users send it for lazy-night, tired-from-work, or comfort-food vibes.

Added to Unicode 11.0 in 2018 alongside the dumpling and fortune cookie in a major Asian-cuisine emoji expansion.