🧂

Salt Emoji 🧂

A glass shaker with holes punched in a metal lid, salt visible filling most of the container underneath it. Cooking and seasoning posts use it straight, while everyday texting leans on 'salty' for being petty, bitter, or openly annoyed about something that didn't go someone's way, no kitchen involved at all.

What 🧂 means

A cylindrical salt shaker that's mostly made of glass, with a greyish lid having a couple of holes on top of it. The white salt seems to be three-fourths of the shaker.

The 🧂 Salt emoji signifies taste, flavor, preservation, and a vital ingredient when it comes to cooking. However, it can also suggest a sense of being irritable, indifferent angry, aka salty.

How and when to use it

If you're texting someone about how indifferent your bestie, date, or even your boss is being, you can use 🧂 in those conversations. For instance, "I don't know what's gotten into him. He's being so salty, ugh 🧂".
Use 🧂 while telling someone to add a little flavor into their mundane life (any aspect of it) - like, "Hey, listen. You're way too young to settle. Try new things, man. Add some flavor to your existence 🧂".
Are you posting or reposting something related to salt bae? A meme or even a video of you trying out his signature style? Then, you ought to put the 🧂 into those post captions.
If you believe that you are leading a life that makes you feel like the "salt of the earth" then, you can use 🧂 in your social media profile.
Did you just finish an intense workout sesh? Are you texting your boyfriend/girlfriend about how you smell and taste like salt or even posting a social media story of the same? Use 🧂 in such frameworks - like "Intense ab workout done 💯. Tasting like fresh salt 💯 🧂".

Other Names

🧂 Salt Shaker
🧂 Salty
🧂 White Salt
🧂 Salt Bae
🧂 NaCl
🧂 Sodium Chloride
🧂 Table Salt
🧂 Sea Salt
🧂 Saline

The lowdown

Category: Food & Drink › food-prepared
Codepoints: U+1F9C2
Emoji version: Emoji 11.0
Shortcodes: :salt:
Keywords: condiment, flavor, mad, salt, salty, shaker, taste, upset

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.