Meat on Bone 🍖

🍖 (U+1F356) is a standard Unicode character that you can copy and paste anywhere text is accepted. This page provides a concise reference with safe tips, internal links, and practical guidance so you can use it reliably across apps and platforms.

What it is and where it’s used: Meat on Bone is part of the Symbols family (block: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs). If you need styled or decorative alternatives, try our Fancy Text tool to generate compatible text that works in most modern interfaces.

History & usage: The character depicts MEAT ON BONE. In practice, you can use it to represent a meal or cooking topic, a dinner plan, or food in chat and menus. It helps convey hunger, celebration for a barbecue, or a reminder to eat. Use it in UI labels, recipe apps, or grocery lists to signal meat or protein. It can add a playful tone in informal messages while keeping meaning clear. For accessibility, describe the emoji in surrounding text for screen readers and consider contrast and color differences across platforms. Appearance varies by platform, app, and font, so color and detail may differ; ensure guidance remains clear regardless of rendering.

Copy and input: the quickest method is to copy the character here. You can also insert it by its codepoint U+1F356 in many development tools or editors. Some operating systems provide a character viewer or input palette that lets you search by name or code and insert the glyph into documents.

Display and fallback: if you see an empty box (tofu) or a placeholder rectangle, the active font might not include this codepoint. Switching to a font with broader Unicode coverage or using a fallback font usually fixes the issue. On the web, ensure the page’s font stack includes a general‑purpose fallback.

Related references: browse the Categories for similar characters. When choosing a symbol, prefer the official codepoint for semantic clarity and better compatibility with search, copy, and accessibility tooling.

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