🥄️ Spoon emoji
A curved eating utensil designed for scooping and consuming liquid foods, representing comfort, nourishment, and the gentle approach to eating that connects us to childhood and care. The spoon emoji symbolizes soups, cereals, and soft foods that provide warmth and sustenance, often associated with healing, comfort, and maternal care.
Spoons are essential for consuming liquid-based foods and are often the first utensil children learn to use independently. This emoji frequently appears with 🍲 Soup, 🥣 Bowl, and 🍦 Ice cream in discussions about comfort foods and represents the nurturing aspect of feeding and being fed by others.
In broader contexts, this emoji can represent care, gentleness, and the basic tools we need for self-sufficiency. It embodies the connection between nourishment and comfort that makes certain foods emotionally satisfying as well as physically sustaining.
Could also be called Eating spoon, soup spoon, table spoon or scooping utensil emoji.
Other meanings
Comfort food, liquid foods, childhood, nurturing, gentle eating
Example Usage
Perfect spoon for enjoying this warm soup 🥄
Related emoji
Cutlery emojis
Visual description
A metal or silver spoon with a rounded bowl and handle, positioned as if ready for scooping liquid or soft foods.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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