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🧂 Salt

Food & Drink

🧂 Salt Meaning

The salt emoji shows a white cube or crystal of salt, typically depicted with a few granular details. It represents the essential mineral sodium chloride, used universally as a seasoning and preservative. In cooking, salt enhances flavors and is fundamental to nearly all culinary traditions. Culturally, salt carries symbolic meanings of preservation, purity, and value (as in 'worth one's salt'). It's also associated with superstitions like throwing salt over one's shoulder to ward off evil.

When to Use

Used when discussing cooking, seasoning, food preparation, preservation, and cultural references to salt. Also indicates adding flavor to food or situations.

Examples

  • Forgot to add salt to the soup 🧂 totally bland now!
  • The secret to perfect fries? Soak them in salt water first 🧂
  • Spilled salt? Remember to throw some over your shoulder 🧂

How It Looks on Different Platforms

The Salt emoji may look different across platforms and devices.

🧂 on Apple
Apple
iOS / macOS
🧂 on Google
Google
Noto Emoji
🧂 on Samsung
Samsung
One UI
🧂 on Twitter/X
Twitter/X
Twemoji
🧂 on Facebook
Facebook
Meta Emoji
🧂 on Microsoft
Microsoft
Fluent Emoji
🧂 on WhatsApp
WhatsApp
WhatsApp Emoji

Unicode Information

Code PointU+1F9C2
HTML Entity🧂
CSS Escape\1F9C2
Unicode Version11.0
iOS Version12.1

Details

CategoryFood & Drink
Aliasessalt

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