🌮 Taco

🌮 Taco is one of the prepared dishes in Unicode's Food & Drink group. In practice it comes up around mexican.

Worth knowing: 🌮 carries a second, informal reading. In chats it often means something other than the literal picture – our overview of double meaning emojis explains which one.

🌮 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. 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+1F32E.

• A single 🌮 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about mexican.
• Often seen near 🥪 Sandwich, 🌯 Burrito and 🌭 Hot Dog.

Mexican cuisine as a whole has been on the UNESCO intangible heritage list since 2010 – the traditional cooking of Michoacán standing for the country. Its basis is nixtamalisation, a process that treats maize with lime water and has been used for thousands of years.

The taco al pastor descends from Lebanese immigrants and their shawarma. In English-language internet use, 🌮 also carries a suggestive secondary meaning.

• 🌮🥓 – Taco and Bacon
• 🌮🥙 – Taco with Stuffed Flatbread
• 🌮🥪 – Taco plus Sandwich
• 🌮🍳 – Taco and Cooking
• 🌮🍔 – Taco with Hamburger
• 🌮🫔 – Taco plus Tamale
• 🌮🍕 – Taco and Pizza
• 🌮🌯 – Taco with Burrito

Easy to mix up with 🥪 Sandwich, 🌯 Burrito or 🌭 Hot Dog. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.