| Emoji | 🍕 |
| Name | pizza |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+1F355 |
| Category | Food & Drink |
| Subcategory | Food Prepared |
| Emoji Version | 0.6 |
| Tags | cheese, food, hungry, pepperoni, slice |
| Decimal Value | 127829 |
| Hex Value | 0x1F355 |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | 🍕 / 🍕 |
The pizza emoji represents a specific food or drink item, commonly used literally in conversation about meals and menus, or informally to signal mood, plans, or cultural/regional identity tied to that dish.
Category context: The Food & Drink category covers fruits, vegetables, prepared dishes, and beverages from cuisines around the world — a category that has expanded significantly over the years as Unicode added more culturally diverse food items beyond early Western-centric selections.
Cataloged under Food Prepared within the Food & Drink category, pizza is the 69th of 131 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 0.6 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F355.
💡 Good to know: Rendering style (realistic vs. stylized/cartoonish) varies significantly between platforms for food emoji — what looks appetizing on one platform may render quite differently on another.