U+1F9C6 · emoji since 2019
Falafel are crispy fried balls of spiced chickpeas. It means Middle Eastern food, street eats, and a tasty plant-based bite.
It headlines pita wraps and mezze platters, the golden, crunchy favorite of food stalls everywhere.
In texting, 🧆 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🧆 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Falafel emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the falafel emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🧆 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
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