A tortilla rolled tight around a hidden filling, the bottom half wrapped in foil or paper the way it comes fresh off a truck. Mexican and Tex-Mex menus both claim it rather than one specific dish, and it gets pulled out anytime a meal is portable, stuffed full, or eaten one-handed on the go.
What 🌯 means
A soft tortilla rolled into a thick pocket such that it can hold a variety of fillings inclusive of meat, veggies, sauces, etc. The lower three-fourths of the emoji are covered with a white butter paper (mostly).
The 🌯 Burrito emoji signifies Mexican cuisine and a fusion of both Texas and Mexican food, thus giving rise to the 'Tex Mex' gastronomy. Although 'burrito' literally translates to 'little donkey' in Espanol, it ain't exactly derogatory, as both subjects here can carry heavy loads 🙂.
How and when to use it
- If you know someone who's as hardworking (see...) and quirky as a donkey, you can name them burrito (damn cute, especially if offense is not a piece of cake). In such contexts, you can use 🌯 while saving the person's number or even while posting pictures with or of them.
- You can also use 🌯 while sharing general posts on Mexican and Texas-Mexican (tex-mex) cuisine too; it can be a food stall that you came across at the carnival or a new restaurant in your locality, anything.
- If you're sharing a picture of your house pet or even a significant other who looks like a burrito for more reasons than one (or mostly just one; love), then feel free to use 🌯 in such post captions!
- Also, there are many dishes that look like a burrito but aren't, and also they do not have an emoji - in such cases, you can use 🌯 to refer to those rolls .
Other Names
- 🌯 Burro (meaning donkey, the origin of the word indeed)
- 🌯 Roll
- 🌯 Shawarma
- 🌯 Tortilla Rolls
- 🌯 Chiko Roll
- 🌯 Egg Roll
- 🌯 Kati Roll
- (come on, don't exclude food just coz they don't have an emoji)
🌯 in real conversations
What's actually the difference between a taco and a burrito?
Mainly the wrap and the ratio — a taco uses a small corn or flour tortilla folded around a light filling, while a burrito uses one large flour tortilla rolled tight around rice, beans, meat and more, built to be eaten end to end with your hands. 🌯 is the 'whole meal in a wrapper' option; 🌮 is the smaller, messier one.
Why do people call swaddling a baby 'burrito-ing' them?
Because the technique looks exactly like one — wrapping a blanket snugly around a baby with their arms tucked in, leaving just the face out, which really does resemble a rolled burrito. 🌯 gets borrowed for that visual constantly, captioning a swaddled newborn or, just as often, an adult wrapped burrito-style in a blanket on the couch.
What does 🌯 mean in a caption that has nothing to do with dinner?
Usually still that blanket-wrap image — 'burrito mode' for a lazy day spent bundled up, or a joke about being wrapped up and refusing to move. It's less about the food itself and more about the specific, cozy shape a burrito makes once it's rolled.
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-prepared
- Codepoints
U+1F32F- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:burrito:- Keywords
- burrito, mexican, wrap
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.
Pairs well with
Tap any combo to copy the whole thing.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🌯 Burrito or 🔝 TOP Arrow?
Runs with a crowd
🌯 keeps company in food emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.