Bread

The 🍞 Bread emoji belongs to the prepared dishes, filed by Unicode under Food & Drink. It usually appears in messages about carbs, food, grain and loaf. Unicode also files it under restaurant, toast and wheat, which shows how widely it is read.

🍞 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Food and Drink. The character has been part of the standard since 2010 (Emoji 0.6). Its code point is U+1F35E.

• 🍞 on its own already flags the topic: carbs.
• Fits messages about carbs, food, grain and loaf.
• Often seen near 🥐 Croissant, 🥖 Baguette Bread and 🫓 Flatbread.

Bread carries an almost sacred weight in many cultures: in Russia and Ukraine guests are welcomed with khleb-sol, bread and salt. In Christianity bread is the body of Christ; in Judaism challah belongs to Shabbat.

German bread culture, with over three hundred varieties, has been on the national intangible heritage register since 2014. In France a 1993 law governs what may be called pain de tradition.

• 🍞🥓 – Bread and Bacon
• 🍞🍗 – Bread with Poultry Leg
• 🍞🥐 – Bread plus Croissant
• 🍞🥯 – Bread and Bagel
• 🍞🧇 – Bread with Waffle
• 🍞🥨 – Bread plus Pretzel
• 🍞🥖 – Bread and Baguette Bread
• 🍞🫓 – Bread with Flatbread

Easy to mix up with 🥐 Croissant, 🥖 Baguette Bread or 🫓 Flatbread. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.