Category: Food & Drink

🫔tamale

🫔 tamale belongs to Food & Drink. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.

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Meaning

A traditional Mexican dish made of masa or dough, steamed in a corn husk or banana leaf.

Aliases

:tamale:

Keywords

foodmexicanpamonhawrappedtamale

What does 🫔 tamale mean?

This emoji represents a tamale, a traditional Mesoamerican dish made of starchy dough that is steamed in a corn husk or banana leaf. It is often used in conversations about Mexican cuisine, Latin American food, or holiday meals. Depending on context, it can also refer to similar wrapped dishes like Brazilian pamonha.

Often used for

Discussing Mexican or Latin American cuisine
Sharing what you are eating for a meal
Talking about holiday food traditions like Las Posadas
Mentioning similar wrapped foods such as pamonha

Tone: It is a straightforward food emoji with no widely recognized figurative or slang meanings, so it is best used literally.

Illustrative message examples with 🫔

These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.

my abuela made tamales for christmas 🫔
craving some real mexican food rn 🫔
grabbing a tamale from the food truck 🫔
these pamonhas are so good 🫔
anybody know a good tamale spot around here? 🫔

How 🫔 tamale looks

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🫔 tamale codes for developers

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Emoji	`🫔`
Unicode codepoints	`U+1FAD4`
HTML (decimal)	`🫔`
HTML (hex)	`🫔`
CSS	`\1FAD4`
JavaScript	`\u{1FAD4}`
JSON	`\uD83E\uDED4`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%AB%94`
Shortcode (GitHub)	`:tamale:`