Salt is used for cooking, and online for calling someone "salty" — bitter, resentful or upset over something minor. 🧂 Salt is an emoji from the Food & Drink category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F9C2 and it was released in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🧂 Salt mean?
Salt is used for cooking, and online for calling someone "salty" — bitter, resentful or upset over something minor.
🧂 Salt is part of the “Cooked / Prepared” set in the Food & Drink emoji category. You will see it in chats and captions related to condiment, flavor, mad, salty and shaker. It was approved as part of Emoji 11.0 in 2018 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :salt: to insert it.
Salt emoji codes
| Emoji | 🧂 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F9C2 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🧂 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🧂 |
| CSS | \1F9C2 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9C2} |
| Python | \U0001F9C2 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A7%82 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 82 |
| Shortcode | :salt: |
How to type 🧂 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “salt”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “salt”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “salt”.
- HTML: write
🧂in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Salt keywords
- condiment
- flavor
- mad
- salty
- shaker
- taste
- upset
Frequently asked questions
What does 🧂 mean?
Salt is used for cooking, and online for calling someone "salty" — bitter, resentful or upset over something minor.
How do I copy and paste the Salt emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🧂 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🧂 Salt added to Unicode?
Salt was released as part of Emoji 11.0 in 2018.
Related Cooked / Prepared emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.