Sandwich
🥪 is the sandwich emoji, part of Unicode's Food & Drink group, added in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Unicode's keyword list links it with “bread”.
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Technical details
Source: Unicode Consortium- Unicode name
- SANDWICH
- CLDR short name
- sandwich
- Codepoint
- U+1F96A
- Hex
- 1F96A
- Emoji version
- 5.0
- Unicode version
- 10.0
- First released
- 2017
- Unicode group
- Food & Drink
- Unicode subgroup
- food-prepared
- Status
- Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)
Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built
GitHub shortcode
From GitHub's own emoji list (gemoji). Slack, Discord and other apps keep separate lists, so a code may differ there.
:sandwich:Keywords
Source: Unicode CLDRbread · sandwich
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How it looks
Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)
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Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork
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Questions people ask
- What does the 🥪 sandwich emoji mean?
- 🥪 is the sandwich emoji, part of Unicode's Food & Drink group, added in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Unicode's keyword list links it with “bread”.
- What is the Unicode codepoint for 🥪?
- U+1F96A, named SANDWICH in the Unicode Standard.
- When was the 🥪 sandwich emoji released?
- It was added in Emoji 5.0, published in 2017, alongside Unicode 10.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
- How do I type 🥪 on my phone or computer?
- On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “sandwich”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 🥪 from this page with one click.
- What is the shortcode for 🥪?
- On GitHub, type :sandwich: and it turns into 🥪 — that code comes from GitHub's own emoji list. Slack, Discord and other apps keep their own shortcode lists; many codes match GitHub's, but check the app's emoji picker to be sure.