U+1F357 · emoji since 2010
The poultry leg is a meaty drumstick, all comfort and feast. It means dinner, barbecue, and tearing into something hearty.
It headlines holiday meals, hungry posts, and the medieval-banquet joy of eating with your hands.
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 Poultry Leg emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the poultry leg emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
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