🌶️ Hot pepper emoji

What is 🌶️ called?

🌶️ is called the Hot pepper emoji.

What does 🌶️ mean?

🌶️ is officially named hot pepper. It represents spicy chili peppers, symbolizing heat, spicy food, Mexican cuisine, or intense flavors. This emoji is used in discussions about spicy food, Mexican cooking, heat levels, or expressing intensity, passion, and fiery characteristics.

Use it for literal references to hot pepper, and for spicy food, heat, Mexican cuisine, intense flavors, passion, fiery characteristics, culinary heat, challenging flavors. The surrounding words should make literal, figurative, cultural, or seasonal intent clear. Related choices include 🌽 Ear of corn and 🫑 Bell pepper.

Other meanings

It can mean spicy food, heat, Mexican cuisine, intense flavors, passion, fiery characteristics, culinary heat, challenging flavors. Context determines whether the message is literal, symbolic, culinary, seasonal, humorous, or cultural.

Example Usage

Spicy tacos tonight 🌶️ bringing the heat with fresh chilies!

Today’s food list includes hot pepper 🌶️

More details

Officially named hot pepper. Its code point is U+1F336. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0. The curved red chilli implies heat, but actual pepper varieties and spice levels vary widely.

Related emoji

Peppers emojis

• 🫑️ Bell pepper

Visual description

A small, bright red chili pepper with curved shape and pointed tip, showing the characteristic appearance of hot peppers used in spicy cuisine.

The curved red chilli implies heat, but actual pepper varieties and spice levels vary widely. Colours, proportions, pose, and fine details vary by platform.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.