Pot of Food 🍲

🍲 (U+1F372) 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: Pot of Food 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: POT OF FOOD depicts a pot of food. In messaging and interfaces, it can symbolize meals, cooking, or food sharing. It helps express hunger, readiness to cook, or meal plans in conversation or user interfaces. Use it to indicate meals or cooking in messages, or to tag recipes and cooking steps. Use it to signal food on a menu, in a recipe card, or when planning a meal with friends. Use it to show sharing meals or inviting others to eat in social features. Across platforms, color and style vary, so designs may differ in detail. For accessibility, ensure surrounding text clarifies the intended meaning and that assistive tech can convey the idea.

Copy and input: the quickest method is to copy the character here. You can also insert it by its codepoint U+1F372 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.

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