🧀 Cheese Wedge

Unicode lists 🧀 Cheese Wedge among the prepared dishes in the Food & Drink group. People send it when the subject is cheese and wedge.

🧀 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Food and Drink. It joined the standard with Emoji 1.0 in 2015, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1F9C0.

• A single 🧀 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about cheese and wedge.
• Often seen near 🧇 Waffle, 🥞 Pancakes and 🍖 Meat on Bone.

The cheese with holes shown here is Emmental – the holes form from carbon dioxide produced by propionic acid bacteria. In the United States this image stands generically for “cheese”, which is why many take it to be Swiss cheese as such.

France counts more than a thousand varieties; de Gaulle asked how one governs a country with 246 cheeses. In East Asia cheese was traditionally unknown and is still eaten far less.

• 🧀🥓 – Cheese Wedge and Bacon
• 🧀🍗 – Cheese Wedge with Poultry Leg
• 🧀🍔 – Cheese Wedge plus Hamburger
• 🧀🥯 – Cheese Wedge and Bagel
• 🧀🧇 – Cheese Wedge with Waffle
• 🧀🥨 – Cheese Wedge plus Pretzel
• 🧀🥖 – Cheese Wedge and Baguette Bread
• 🧀🍟 – Cheese Wedge with French Fries

Easy to mix up with 🧇 Waffle, 🥞 Pancakes or 🍖 Meat on Bone. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.