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Bagel emoji 🥯

🥯 is the bagel: a sliced bagel, often with cream cheese. It means bagels and breakfast — New York delis, brunch, Jewish food culture, the “everything bagel” — and it is…

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What the bagel 🥯 emoji means

🥯 is the bagel: a sliced bagel, often with cream cheese. It means bagels and breakfast — New York delis, brunch, Jewish food culture, the “everything bagel” — and it is easily confused with 🍩 doughnut, which is sweet and iced. Added in Emoji 11.0 (2018), after Apple redrew its first version to add the schmear. Breakfast set: ☕ coffee, 🍞 bread; the city 🗽 New York.

Unicode name: bagel · U+1F96F · Emoji 11.0 (2018) · group: Food & Drink.

IN A CAPTIONeverything bagel, scallion cream cheese, no notes 🥯

How people use it

  • Breakfast and brunch: with ☕
  • New York: deli culture
  • Jewish food: bagels and lox
  • Round things: zero, “nothing”

Compare the options

EmojiNameNotes
bagelU+1F96FBagel
doughnutU+1F369Sweet doughnut
breadU+1F35EBread
hot beverageU+2615Coffee
cheese wedgeU+1F9C0Cream cheese stand-in

Questions people ask

What is the difference between 🥯 and 🍩?

🥯 is a savoury bagel, cut and spread; 🍩 is an iced doughnut.

When was 🥯 added?

2018, Emoji 11.0.

What does 🥯 mean from a guy?

Breakfast plans, most likely.

About this guide

Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.

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