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Bread Emoji 🍞

A loaf of sliced white bread is the bread emoji, used for the food itself in toast, sandwiches, and a fresh bake. It also covers 'bread' as slang for money, a usage borrowed from hip-hop where a paycheck is 'bread' and a big earner is 'making that bread.'

What 🍞 means

A single, uncut loaf of bread that's lightly brown on the inside and darker on the crusty sides (both). The 🍞 Bread emoji can signify food, earnings (breadwinner), and money. Besides, bread can have numerous religious significances as well.

How and when to use it

If you earned your first cheque and you're showing off that achievement as a social media post/story or even in a direct message (DM) to a close someone, then you can use 🍞 in such contexts. Like, "Earned my first loaf of bread! 🍞".
If you're texting someone about personal and financial difficulties, but don't want to sound like you're venting, use 🍞 in those conversations. For instance, "Yo, you know my situation. I'm the only breadwinner 🍞 and all that you're saying is blatantly impossible".
In obvious uses, 🍞 can be popped into a caption for a post that has bread in it. It can be a picture/video from a bakery, bread-based food (like toast), a fresh loaf of bread, or even while visualizing the enticing aroma of bread that's just been taken out of the oven.
Bread is also another word for money. So, building upon that usage 🍞 can be used as a codeword in such contexts. For example, "Dude. It's been a damn month. Gimme back my money! 🍞". (use this emoji to lessen the intense rage you might probably be feeling. If it's too much, CALL THE DAMN BUGGER).

Other Names

🍞 Loaf of Bread
🍞 Loaf
🍞 White Bread
🍞 Brown Bread
🍞 Sweet Bread
🍞 Toast
🍞 Wheat Bread
🍞 Bread Slice

The lowdown

Category: Food & Drink › food-prepared
Codepoints: U+1F35E
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :bread:
Keywords: bread, carbs, food, grain, loaf, restaurant, toast, wheat

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.