CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files condiment under three emoji, Pickle, Salt and Jar, and tomato under Tomato alone. That makes the ketchup emoji on this page 🍅🫙: a tomato condiment in two characters.
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Ketchup emoji copy and paste: jar or bottle
🍅🫙 follows the search words. For a bottle, 🍅🧴 swaps in Lotion bottle, this page's own pick: CLDR files bottle under four emoji, and the other three hold milk, sake and something with a cork.
Before the tomato
By Wikipedia the word was in print by 1682, and early recipes used mushrooms, oysters, grapes or walnuts. The first known tomato ketchup recipe is from 1812. 🍄🫙, 🦪🫙 and 🍌🫙 stand for three of the other kinds.
Catsup is the same sauce: by Wikipedia that spelling is common in some southern US states and in Mexico.
Questions and answers
Is there a ketchup emoji?
Not by that name. Unicode's emoji list, version 18.0, has no emoji named ketchup or catsup, and CLDR has neither word. 🍅🫙, Tomato then Jar, is the stand-in on this page.
Is there a ketchup bottle emoji?
Not by that name. The four emoji CLDR files under bottle are Baby bottle, Sake, Bottle with popping cork and Lotion bottle. 🍅🧴 uses the last, and the ASCII drawings give a glass bottle and a squeeze bottle.
Is there a ketchup emoticon?
None is standard, so the ones here are typed: [____]=> is a bottle on its side with the nozzle to the right, and [____]=> ~~~ is the same bottle mid-squeeze.
Where does the word ketchup come from?
It is unclear, by Wikipedia. One theory is Hokkien kê-chiap, brine from pickled fish or shellfish. Another is Malay kicap, which first meant soy sauce. Wiktionary thinks the first probable, by way of the second.
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Closest emoji 16
🍌BananaU+1F34C. Filed under banana and fruit. Emoji 0.6.
🍳CookingU+1F373. Filed under egg and fry. Emoji 0.6.
🐟FishU+1F41F. Filed under fish and dinner. This page's pick for the pickled fish in one theory of the word. Emoji 0.6.
🍟French friesU+1F35F. The only emoji filed under fries. Also filed under fast. Emoji 0.6.
🍇GrapesU+1F347. Filed under grape and fruit. Emoji 0.6.
🍔HamburgerU+1F354. The only emoji filed under burger. Emoji 0.6.
🌭Hot dogU+1F32D. The only emoji filed under hotdog. Also filed under sausage. Emoji 1.0.
🫙JarU+1FAD9. Filed under condiment and sauce. Emoji 14.0.
🍅🫙KetchupTomato, then jar.
🍅🧴Ketchup bottleTomato, then lotion bottle.
🧴Lotion bottleU+1F9F4. Filed under bottle and lotion. This page's pick for a squeeze bottle. Emoji 11.0.
🍄MushroomU+1F344. Filed under mushroom and fungus. Emoji 0.6.
🦪OysterU+1F9AA. Filed under oyster and pearl. Emoji 12.0.
🔴Red circleU+1F534. Filed under red and circle. A dot of ketchup. Emoji 0.6.
🧂SaltU+1F9C2. Filed under condiment and salt. Emoji 11.0.
🍅TomatoU+1F345. The only emoji filed under tomato. Emoji 0.6.
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Kinds of ketchup 4
🍌🫙Banana ketchupBanana, then jar. A Philippine condiment of banana, sugar, vinegar and spices, first made when tomatoes ran short, by Wikipedia.
🍇🫙Grape ketchupGrapes, then jar. Grapes are on Wikipedia's list of early ingredients too.
🍄🫙Mushroom ketchupMushroom, then jar. By Wikipedia, ketchup in the United Kingdom was made with mushrooms from the 1600s.
🦪🫙Oyster ketchupOyster, then jar. Oysters are among the early ingredients Wikipedia lists.
Typed ketchup 5
(>'-')> [__]=>A face passing the bottle along.
[____]=>A bottle on its side, nozzle to the right.
[____]=> . . .The last three drops.
[____]=> ~~~The same bottle, mid-squeeze.
||||| (~)Five fries and a pot of ketchup.
Ketchup drawings 3
Fries and a dip, in ASCIIA carton of fries beside a small pot of ketchup. Five lines.
Ketchup bottle, in ASCIIA glass bottle with a cap, a neck and a label. Eight lines. Needs monospaced text.
Squeeze bottle, in ASCIIA squeeze bottle held nozzle down, with two drops falling. Nine lines.
Ketchup words 8
catchupThe spelling of 1690, by Wikipedia.
catsupThe same sauce. By Wikipedia this spelling was in print by 1730.
kê-chiapHokkien for brine from pickled fish or shellfish: one theory of where the word began, by Wikipedia.
kecap manisIndonesian sweet soy sauce, by Wikipedia.
kicapMalay, first meaning soy sauce: another theory, by Wikipedia.
marry the ketchupBy Wiktionary, an idiom: to pour the ketchup of half-empty restaurant bottles together, so fewer bottles are left.
tomato catsupWiktionary's synonym for tomato ketchup. A recipe of 1817 under this name had anchovies in it, by Wikipedia.
tomato sauceBy Wikipedia, also said in the UK for something similar.
Ketchup lines 7
fries first, ketchup always 🍟For a plate photo.
ketchup on my shirt again 🍅For the stain.
ketchup on the side, pleaseFor an order.
ketchup or catsup. discussBy Wikipedia both spellings are in use.
no ketchup, no dealFor the table that ran out.
playing ketchup all weekBy Wiktionary, in one pronunciation ketchup sounds the same as catch-up.
tap the bottle and hopeFor a glass bottle that will not pour.
Ketchup combos 11
🍔🍅🫙Burger with ketchupHamburger, then tomato, then jar.
🍔🍟🍅🫙Burger, fries, ketchupHamburger, then french fries, then tomato, then jar.
🍟🍅🫙Fries and ketchupFrench fries, then tomato, then jar.
🌭🍅🫙Hot dog with ketchupHot dog, then tomato, then jar.
🍳🍅🫙Ketchup on eggsCooking, then tomato, then jar.
👕🔴Ketchup stainT-shirt, then red circle.
🧴🔴Last squeezeLotion bottle, then red circle.
🫙😭Out of ketchupJar, then loudly crying face. Jar is one of three emoji CLDR files under empty.
🙏🍅🫙Pass the ketchupFolded hands, then tomato, then jar.
🔴🧴🟡🧴Red bottle, yellow bottleRed circle, then lotion bottle, then yellow circle, then lotion bottle. Ketchup in red and mustard in yellow, as in Wiktionary's example sentence.
🧂🍅🫙Salt and ketchupSalt, then tomato, then jar.
How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-13 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); emoji names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Unicode has no emoji named ketchup: no emoji name in that list, no CLDR search word or name and no character name in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt) holds ketchup, catsup or catchup. CLDR files condiment under Pickle, Salt and Jar, tomato under Tomato alone, bottle under Baby bottle, Sake, Bottle with popping cork and Lotion bottle, fries under French fries alone, hotdog under Hot dog alone, burger under Hamburger alone and empty under three emoji, Jar among them; it files nothing under mustard or vinegar. Character names are in sentence case. Unicode data is used under the Unicode terms of use (https://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html). What ketchup is made from, its spellings and their dates, the early ingredients, the 1812 and 1817 recipes and the theories of the word are restated from Wikipedia: Ketchup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup), Mushroom ketchup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_ketchup) and Banana ketchup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_ketchup), all CC BY-SA 4.0. The synonym, the pronunciation note, the example sentence and the idiom are from Wiktionary: ketchup (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ketchup), catsup (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/catsup) and marry the ketchup (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/marry_the_ketchup), all CC BY-SA 4.0. The pairs that stand in for ketchup, the typed bottles, the three drawings, the lines and the combos are this site's own work; a tile marked this page's pick is this site's own choice. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the typed lines, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.