🥢 Chopsticks

Unicode lists 🥢 Chopsticks among the tableware in the Food & Drink group. People send it when the subject is hashi, jeotgarak and kuaizi.

🥢 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Food and Drink. It joined the standard with Emoji 5.0 in 2017, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1F962.

• 🥢 works as a one-character reply when hashi is the subject.
• Fits messages about hashi, jeotgarak and kuaizi.
• Often seen near 🍽️ Fork and Knife with Plate, 🥄 Spoon and 🍴 Fork and Knife.

Chopsticks are used by roughly a fifth of humanity and vary by region: Chinese ones are longer and blunt, Japanese shorter and pointed, Korean traditionally flat and made of metal.

Firm taboos apply: never stand them upright in rice, never pass food from chopstick to chopstick – both belong to funeral rites – and do not point them at people or drum on dishes.

• 🥢🍽️ – Chopsticks and Fork and Knife with Plate
• 🥢🫙 – Chopsticks with Jar
• 🥢🥄 – Chopsticks plus Spoon
• 🥢🔪 – Chopsticks and Kitchen Knife
• 🥢🏺 – Chopsticks with Amphora
• 🥢🍴 – Chopsticks plus Fork and Knife

Easy to mix up with 🍽️ Fork and Knife with Plate, 🥄 Spoon or 🍴 Fork and Knife. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.