CLDR files three emoji under mexican, Taco first, and under salsa two dancers and a lime. So this taco emoji copy and paste page builds the plate from parts: fillings, toppings, shells in plain text, text tacos and 13 combos.
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Lettuce, burro and octopus
Lettuce finds Leafy green, burro finds Donkey and its combo, and octopus finds ใฟใณ, the Japanese for taco and also for octopus. No emoji is filed under tortilla, cilantro or guacamole, so Flatbread, Herb and the Guacamole, unmashed combo stand in. An order of three is three tacos in one tap.
Lime is three code points
Lime is the newest tile, from Emoji 15.1, and is three code points joined: where they come apart, a lemon and a green square arrive. Donkey is from 15.0 and Beans from 14.0. Taco itself is Emoji 1.0, and \%&%/ is keyboard characters only.
Tips
ใฟใณใน, takosu, is the other Japanese spelling Wiktionary gives, and it has no tentacles.
โช is a maths sign Unicode also calls cup. As plain text it takes the colour of your words.
Questions and answers
What is the difference between the taco and burrito emoji?
Wikipedia tells the dishes apart: the burrito is far bigger, and rolled where a taco is folded. As emoji they are neighbours, both from Emoji 1.0. Burrito means little donkey in Spanish, by Wikipedia, and CLDR files Donkey under burro.
When was the taco emoji added?
In Unicode 8.0, released on 17 June 2015. Hot dog, Taco and Burrito arrived together at U+1F32D to U+1F32F, and Unicode's emoji list labels all three Emoji 1.0. Tamale followed in Emoji 13.0.
Is there a salsa or guacamole emoji?
No. CLDR files no emoji under guacamole, and the three it files under salsa are Woman dancing, Man dancing and Lime: it means the dance. Pico de gallo and Guacamole, unmashed spell both out in ingredients, following Wikipedia's lists.
๐ฏBurritoU+1F32F. Filed under mexican and wrap. Wikipedia tells the two apart: the burrito is the far bigger one, and it is rolled where a taco is folded. Emoji 1.0.
๐ฝEar of cornU+1F33D. What the tortilla is made of, when it is not wheat. Filed under maize and, separately, maze. Emoji 0.6.
๐ซFlatbreadU+1FAD3. No emoji is filed under tortilla. Flatbread is the nearest: CLDR files it under arepa, gordita, naan and pita. Emoji 13.0.
๐ฎTacoU+1F32E. Two search words in CLDR, mexican and taco. By Wikipedia: a small tortilla, a filling, folded and eaten by hand. Emoji 1.0.
๐ซTamaleU+1FAD4. The third and last emoji under mexican. By Wikipedia it is steamed inside a wrapping, corn husk or banana leaf. CLDR also files it under pamonha, a similar dish. Emoji 13.0.
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Fillings, in Wikipedia's order 7
๐ซBeansU+1FAD8. Filed under kidney and legume. New enough to check where it is going. Emoji 14.0.
๐งCheese wedgeU+1F9C0. Two search words, cheese and wedge. Last in Wikipedia's list of fillings. Emoji 1.0.
๐ฅฉCut of meatU+1F969. Beef comes first in Wikipedia's list of fillings, and CLDR files no emoji under beef. This one is filed under steak. Emoji 5.0.
๐FishU+1F41F. Seafood, part one. Fish tacos originated in Baja California, says Wikipedia. Emoji 0.6.
๐PigU+1F416. Pork, the second filling. One of two emoji CLDR files under pork. The other is Pig face. Emoji 1.0.
๐Poultry legU+1F357. Chicken, the third. Also filed under hungry. Emoji 0.6.
๐ฆShrimpU+1F990. Seafood, part two, filed under shellfish and small. Shrimp tacos are from Baja California too. Emoji 3.0.
Toppings, and the lime on the side 8
๐ฅAvocadoU+1F951. Filed under avocado, food and fruit. Guacamole is not filed anywhere, so see the combo. Emoji 3.0.
๐ฟHerbU+1F33F. Standing in for cilantro, which CLDR does not file anywhere. Neither is coriander. Emoji 0.6.
๐ถ๏ธHot pepperU+1F336 U+FE0F. Two search words, hot and pepper. No emoji is filed under spicy or jalapeno, so this does both jobs. Emoji 0.7.
๐ฅฌLeafy greenU+1F96C. The only emoji CLDR files under lettuce. Also under kale, salad and burgers. Emoji 11.0.
๐โ๐ฉLimeU+1F34B U+200D U+1F7E9. Served on the side. CLDR files it under salsa, garnish and zest. Three code points joined: where they come apart, a lemon and a green square arrive. Emoji 15.1.
๐ง OnionU+1F9C5. Chopped, by tradition. CLDR gives it two words, flavoring and onion. Emoji 12.0.
๐PineappleU+1F34D. For al pastor. Wikipedia puts pineapple in the marinade. Emoji 0.6.
๐ TomatoU+1F345. For the salsa. Filed under both fruit and vegetable. Emoji 0.6.
Flag, truck and what CLDR calls salsa 7
๐Delivery truckU+1F69A. As close as Unicode gets to a taco truck. Filed under delivery and truck. Emoji 0.6.
๐ซDonkeyU+1FACF. Burrito means little donkey in Spanish, says Wikipedia, and CLDR files Donkey under burro. Emoji 15.0.
๐คคDrooling faceU+1F924. Two search words, drooling and face. Send it before the order arrives. Emoji 3.0.
๐ฒ๐ฝFlag: MexicoU+1F1F2 U+1F1FD. One CLDR word, flag. Type mexico instead: search reads names as well. Emoji 2.0.
๐บMan dancingU+1F57A. Also filed under salsa, and also not a sauce. Emoji 3.0.
๐๏ธSpiral calendarU+1F5D3 U+FE0F. For a standing weekly order. Three search words: calendar, pad and spiral. Emoji 0.7.
๐Woman dancingU+1F483. Search salsa and this is what CLDR offers. It means the dance. Emoji 0.6.
Taco shells in plain text 4
โฏBottom half black circle, a taco from the sideU+2BCB Bottom half black circle. Added in Unicode 7.0, later than the rest of this row, so some fonts lack it: an empty box means yours does.
โกLower half circle, a soft shell mid-foldU+25E1 Lower half circle. From the block of geometric shapes. Empty, as drawn.
โSquare cup, the flat-bottomed shellU+2294 Square cup. Another maths sign. It stands up on its own, which is more than most tacos manage.
โชUnion, a hard shell from the endU+222A Union. A maths sign. Unicode also calls it cup. Plain text, so it takes the colour of the words around it.
One-line tacos and dividers 7
(::::::)Burrito in plain ASCII, rolled and not folded
\%&%/Hard-shell taco from the end, filling included
\%&%/ \%&%/ \%&%/Three text tacos, in plain ASCII
โช โช โชThree empty shells, waiting
โฐโโค ๐ฎArrow pointing at a taco
๊ฐ๐ฎ๊ฑTaco in soft brackets
๐ฎ ยท ยท ยท ๐ฎ ยท ยท ยท ๐ฎDivider: three tacos and dots
Taco in Japanese 2
ใฟใณTako: taco in Japanese, and also octopus
ใฟใณในTacos in Japanese (takosu), the spelling with no octopus in it
Taco combos 13
๐ฎ๐๐Al pastorTaco, then pig, then pineapple. Spit-grilled pork with pineapple in the marinade. By Wikipedia the method is based on the lamb shawarma that Lebanese immigrants brought to Mexico.
๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฎAn order of threeTaco 3 times. Three in one tap.
๐ฅ๐ง๐ฎBreakfast tacoEgg, then cheese wedge, then taco. Tex-Mex, by Wikipedia: a soft tortilla round eggs, meat or cheese. Egg is filed under breakfast, so the paperwork is in order.
๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ซFiled under mexicanTaco, then burrito, then tamale. Every emoji CLDR files under mexican, in Unicode's order. It is a short menu.
๐ฅ๐ง๐โ๐ฉ๐ง ๐ถ๏ธGuacamole, unmashedAvocado, then salt, then lime, then onion, then hot pepper. Wikipedia's main ingredients, in its order: avocados, salt, lime juice, onions, jalapenos. The name is from Nahuatl and means avocado sauce.
๐ฎ๐บ๐ธHard shellTaco, then flag: United States. By Wikipedia the crisp, hard shell grew up in the United States.
๐ฏ๐ซLittle donkeyBurrito, then donkey. What burrito means in Spanish, by Wikipedia.
๐ ๐ง ๐ถ๏ธ๐โ๐ฉ๐ฟPico de galloTomato, then onion, then hot pepper, then lime, then herb. Spanish for rooster's beak, says Wikipedia: chopped tomato, onion and chillies with lime and cilantro. No rooster is involved.
๐๐ฎTaco truckDelivery truck, then taco. Delivery truck, redeployed.
๐ซ๐ฅฉ๐ง ๐ฟ๐โ๐ฉTaco, unassembledFlatbread, then cut of meat, then onion, then herb, then lime. Tortilla, filling, chopped onion, cilantro, and lime on the side. Flatbread and Herb are stand-ins.
๐๏ธ๐ฎ๐ฎTacos on a TuesdaySpiral calendar, then taco 2 times. By Wikipedia, adverts for tacos on a Tuesday go back at least to 1933.
๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎTwo from BajaFish, then taco, then shrimp, then taco. Fish tacos and shrimp tacos both originated in Baja California, says Wikipedia.
๐๐บ๐โ๐ฉWhat CLDR means by salsaWoman dancing, then man dancing, then lime. All three emoji filed under salsa. Two are dancing and one is a lime. The sauce is not filed.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The 27 emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file, in sentence case. Taco is U+1F32E, the only entry of that file with taco in its name, printed after sandwich and before burrito and tamale in the food-prepared subgroup. Lime is U+1F34B U+200D U+1F7E9, listed in emoji-zwj-sequences.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-zwj-sequences.txt). That an unsupported joined sequence falls back to its separate emoji is from UTS #51, Unicode Emoji, version 18.0, section 2.5 (https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/). Taco, hot dog and burrito are U+1F32D to U+1F32F, age 8.0 in DerivedAge.txt, and Unicode 8.0 was released on 17 June 2015 (https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/). The 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, main branch). CLDR files taco under mexican and taco; taco, burrito and tamale are the only emoji under mexican; woman dancing, man dancing and lime are the only three under salsa; and no emoji is filed under tortilla, cilantro, coriander, guacamole, spicy, jalapeno, beef or tuesday. Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and a note that names a character uses its name from that file. The other name of U+222A, cup, is from NamesList.txt, and the age of U+2BCB, Unicode 7.0, is from DerivedAge.txt, both version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/). Wikipedia, Taco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taco): a small tortilla of corn or wheat, folded round a filling and eaten from the hand; fillings that run from meat (beef, pork, chicken) and seafood to beans, cheese and vegetables; cilantro, chopped onion and lime on the side; the burrito is the bigger one, rolled where a taco is folded; fish and shrimp tacos from Baja California; the crisp, hard shell grew up in the United States; the breakfast taco of Tex-Mex cuisine. Wikipedia, Al pastor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_pastor): spit-grilled pork, a method based on the lamb shawarma of Lebanese immigrants, pineapple in the marinade. Wikipedia, Burrito (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrito): the word means little donkey. Wikipedia, Tamale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamale): cooked by steaming inside a wrapping of corn husk or banana leaf; pamonha a similar dish. Wikipedia, Guacamole (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guacamole): the main ingredients and the Nahuatl name meaning avocado sauce. Wikipedia, Pico de gallo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_de_gallo): literally rooster's beak; chopped tomato, onion and serrano peppers with salt, lime juice and cilantro. Wikipedia, Taco Tuesday (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taco_Tuesday): adverts for tacos on a Tuesday go back at least to 1933. The two Japanese spellings of taco are from the translations table of Wiktionary's entry taco (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taco). That the Japanese spelling tako is also the word for octopus is from Wiktionary's entry for U+86F8 (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%9B%B8) and from Unihan_Readings.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). The 4 stand-in characters, the 7 one-line drawings, the 2 words and the 13 combos are this site's own choice, the drawings are our own, and the combo names are our own. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are ours. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, and the Han definitions are Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in our own words and credited in the source line.