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🍔 U+1F354, 🍔 HAMBURGER ← 🍓 [U+1F353] Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🍕 → [U+1F355]

Translingual

Description

A burger, often depicted as a sesame seed bun containing a patty, cheese, lettuce and tomatoes (but see the usage notes).

Origin

First introduced in the emoji set of the Japanese mobile phone carrier Docomo in January 1999 as a stylised, pixelated brown-orange bun with a separated rectangle of the same colour in the centre; SoftBank introduced a clearer variant with cheese, tomato and lettuce in December. This emoji was standardised by the Unicode Consortium in October 2010 with the release of Unicode 6.0.

Symbol

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1. burger, hamburger
2. Synonym of 🍟 (“fast food; junk food”).

Usage notes

• The design and display of this pictogram varies by platform and emoji set. Most designs, however, actually depict a cheeseburger.