Emoji dictionary
🧀 Cheese emoji
or Cheese Wedge emoji [ cheez ih-moh-jee ]
What does 🧀 Cheese emoji mean?
The Cheese emoji 🧀 depicts a wedge of cheese. It is commonly used to represent cheese, mice and rats, money, and the state of Wisconsin and its football team, the Green Bay Packers.
On January 20, the Cheese emoji 🧀 is used with the hashtag #CheeseLoversDay to commemorate Cheese Lovers Day, and it is used on June 4 to celebrate National Cheese Day with the hashtag #NationalCheeseDay.
From pizza to fondue and everything in between, cheese is among the most popular foods out there. Now you can talk like the cheese lover you’ve always been.
Where does 🧀 Cheese emoji come from?
The Cheese emoji 🧀, also popularly called Cheese Wedge emoji, was approved under Unicode 8.0 in 2015. On most major platforms, the emoji resembles a triangular wedge of yellow cheese with holes. On most platforms, the cheese wedge is pointed toward the left. The WhatsApp version is pointed to the right, and the Apple version has the cheese wedge lying on its side slanted toward the left. The Microsoft version has a bold black outline.
Cheese is an incredibly popular food that is an ingredient in a large number of recipes. Unsurprisingly, the Cheese emoji 🧀 is used alongside other food emoji such as the Slice of Pizza emoji 🍕 and the Hamburger emoji 🍔. Because mice and rats are commonly depicted as cheese lovers, the Cheese emoji 🧀 is also often used alongside the Mouse emoji 🐁, the Rat emoji 🐀, and the Mouse Face emoji 🐭.
Examples of 🧀 Cheese emoji
Who uses 🧀 Cheese emoji?
The Cheese emoji 🧀 is used to refer to actual cheese.
Somedays are just better with a Grilled Cheese Sandwich 🍞🧀
— Five Guys (@FiveGuys) February 24, 2021
I want a cheeseburger with extra cheese 🧀 ☹️ 🥵
— ❤️ (@kayla_rose566) September 13, 2019
In a related sense, the Cheese emoji 🧀 is used to refer to Wisconsin and the Green Bay Packers football team. Wisconsin is a major cheese producer and Packer fans are affectionately known as “cheeseheads.”
You know you're from Wisconsin when you have string cheese, sliced cheese, cottage cheese, cheese curds and block of cheese all in your fridge 😂🧀
— Summer🔆 (@SummerCee) February 24, 2021
The Cheese emoji 🧀 is sometimes used to represent money or cash, as “cheddar” is a slang term for money. The emoji can be used for other cheese-related slang and idioms.
A little cheddar goes a long way. 💵🧀
— Chester Cheetah (@ChesterCheetah) July 18, 2018
Note
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