What does 🧂 Salt mean?
A salt shaker. It covers seasoning and cooking, but its most popular use is slang: being “salty” means bitter, annoyed or sore about something, so sending it calls out someone’s grumpy reaction, often after losing a game or an argument. It also works for taking a claim “with a grain of salt”. Compare 🌶️, which signals spice rather than attitude.
🧂 Salt is an emoji from the Food & Drink category (prepared foods), added in Emoji 11.0 in 2018. People use it in messages about condiment, flavor, mad, salty, shaker and taste.
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🧂 Salt on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Salt looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Salt emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🧂 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :salt:.
When was the Salt emoji added?
🧂 Salt was added in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🧂 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Salt. The underlying code (U+1F9C2) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.