A white folding carton with its flaps open at the top, styled after the classic oyster pail Chinese-American restaurants use for delivery. Takeout and food delivery of any cuisine gets tagged with it, plus 'boxing it up' language generally, a meal eaten straight out of the container rather than off a plate.
What 🥡 means
A white rectangular box that has a tapering structure with its three or four top flaps open and the sketch of a monastery in red on it. This emoji represents the typical Oyster Pail.
Although the 🥡 Takeout Box emoji refers to a Chinese takeaway box, it can be used as a general food parcel box too. It signifies food delivery, parceling food, or even packing the remaining food to take it home.
How and when to use it
- If you're texting someone about 'Takeout Thursday' or you're inviting them for the scene, then you can use 🥡 in those conversations.
- 🥡 can be used for any takeout too besides Chinese takeouts and Chinese food.
- Apart from packing food from a restaurant, you can use 🥡 even to tell someone that you've packed some food for them. For example, "Yo bro. I've packed your share of food on the counter 🥡. Get your dumbass home whenever you wanna and eat it. I'm going to bed". (so thoughtful, ain't it?).
- While texting someone to parcel some Chinese food on the way home, use 🥡.
- You can also use 🥡 in the contexts of the big bang theory (you know it, you know it).
Other Names
- 🥡 Food Parcel
- 🥡 Oyster Pail
- 🥡 Chinese Takeout
- 🥡 Takeout Thursday
- 🥡 Thai Food
- 🥡 Thai Takeout
- 🥡 Parcel Box
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-asian
- Codepoints
U+1F961- Emoji version
- Emoji 5.0
- Shortcodes
:takeout_box:- Keywords
- box, chopsticks, delivery, food, oyster, pail, takeout
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🥡 Takeout Box or 💞 Revolving Hearts?