Taco Emoji — Copy and Paste

Copy the taco, or take the whole handheld row with it: burrito, flatbread, stuffed flatbread, falafel. Official names, codepoints, how each platform draws the shell, and a repeater for the long lines.

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Text

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100 copies — 499 characters.

The character

🌮 is Taco, U+1F32E, added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015 – the same batch that brought the hot dog, the burrito and the cheese wedge. Before that there was no Mexican food character at all, which is why the taco still gets used as a stand-in for the whole cuisine rather than for one dish.

The set on this page

Character	Official Unicode name	Codepoint	Added in
🌮	Taco	U+1F32E	Unicode 8.0 (2015)
🌯	Burrito	U+1F32F	Unicode 8.0 (2015)
🥙	Stuffed Flatbread	U+1F959	Unicode 9.0 (2016)
🫓	Flatbread	U+1FAD3	Unicode 13.0 (2020)
🧆	Falafel	U+1F9C6	Unicode 12.0 (2019)
🥑	Avocado	U+1F951	Unicode 9.0 (2016)
🍅	Tomato	U+1F345	Unicode 6.0 (2010)
🧀	Cheese Wedge	U+1F9C0	Unicode 8.0 (2015)
🥩	Cut Of Meat	U+1F969	Unicode 10.0 (2017)
🫕	Fondue	U+1FAD5	Unicode 13.0 (2020)

How it renders

Apple, Google and Samsung all draw a folded hard shell with mince, lettuce, tomato and cheese; Microsoft uses the same arrangement in the flatter Windows style. There is no soft-taco character, so a bare tortilla has to be 🫓 Flatbread and a wrapped one has to be 🌯 Burrito. Flatbread only arrived in Unicode 13.0 in 2020, so on a device that stopped taking updates before then it shows as an empty rectangle rather than as bread.

What people use it for

Taco Tuesday posts, truck and restaurant listings, group plans, and as shorthand for "let us eat" where naming a place would be too committal. Put 🍹 Tropical Drink or 🍸 Cocktail Glass next to it and the message reads as a night out instead of a lunch – those two have their own page at cocktail emoji.

Taco text art

A drawn ASCII taco needs a monospace font to hold the shell together, which chat boxes almost never provide. Single-line versions work everywhere: (===) for a folded shell, (=:=) with the filling showing, and (:::) for a loaded one. These are punctuation rather than Unicode characters, so nothing about them depends on the reader’s emoji font – which is why they still paste into username fields that reject 🌮.

Copy notes

The taco itself is safe on anything made or updated since 2015. The falafel (2019), flatbread and fondue (2020) are the ones to test first on old hardware. Screen readers read each character by its short name in turn, so a long row is announced word by word. Neighbours: fries, burger, and the full food emoji list.