Tamale Emoji

Press Copy for the tamale emoji, or pick the husk, a filling, a typed tamale like >(=====)< or a combo.

Tamale Emoji

🫔TamaleU+1FAD4Ready to copy

46 tamale items. Tap one to copy it.

The tamale, its wrapper and its fillings 18

Tamale words and other names 8

Text tamales, one line 6

Tamale combos 14

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How it works

Tamale goes back to a Nahuatl word that Wiktionary glosses as wrapped, and CLDR files the emoji under wrapped too. This tamale emoji page adds the husk, the fillings, eight words from tamal to pamonha, typed tamales and 14 combos.

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Tamale emoji copy and paste: a newer character

Tamale is U+1FAD4, from Emoji 13.0. It arrived with Unicode 13.0, released on 10 March 2020, so an older device may show an empty box. Unicode prints it after Burrito and before Stuffed flatbread, and CLDR gives it five search words: food, mexican, pamonha, tamale and wrapped.

One tamal, two tamales

The Spanish singular is tamal. English made tamale by taking the s off tamales, as Wiktionary has it. By Wikipedia the dough is steamed inside a corn husk or banana leaves, and the wrapper is thrown away or used as a plate: hence Husk and all and Banana leaf tamale.

  • Pamonha, one of CLDR’s five words, is a Brazilian paste of sweet corn served in corn husks, by Wikipedia.
  • Guatemala’s black tamales take their color from chocolate, by Wikipedia: the combo Black tamale adds a chocolate bar.

Questions and answers

Is there a tamale emoji?

Yes, one. It is the only emoji with tamale in its name and the only one CLDR files under the word. No other Unicode character is named for a tamale, and the emoji has no text style form.

What is the difference between the tamale and burrito emoji?

They are neighbours in Unicode’s list, and both are filed under mexican. Burrito is from Emoji 1.0 and gets the word wrap. Tamale gets wrapped, a word it shares only with Wrapped gift.

How do you type a tamale with a keyboard?

Type >(=====)<: a greater-than sign, five equals signs in parentheses and a less-than sign, like a husk parcel pinched at both ends. It is plain ASCII, so it shows on any device.

When are tamales eaten?

Wikipedia names two dates among others. Costa Rica eats them around Christmas, and in Mexico the family meal on Candlemas, 2 February, is tamales. The combos Christmas tamales and Candlemas tamales mark both.

All 46 tamale items

The tamale, its wrapper and its fillings 18

  • Banana U+1F34C. Its leaves are the other wrapper, by Wikipedia. Emoji 0.6.
  • Burrito U+1F32F. The emoji before Tamale in Unicode’s list. Filed under mexican and wrap. Emoji 1.0.
  • Candle U+1F56F U+FE0F. Mexico serves tamales at the family meal on Candlemas, 2 February, by Wikipedia. Emoji 0.7.
  • Cheese wedge U+1F9C0. Cheeses are on the same list. Emoji 1.0.
  • Chicken U+1F414. Filed under chicken. One of the meats Wikipedia names for Guatemala. Emoji 0.6.
  • Chocolate bar U+1F36B. Chocolate gives Guatemala’s black tamales their color, by Wikipedia. Emoji 0.6.
  • Christmas tree U+1F384. Costa Rica eats its tamales around Christmas, by Wikipedia. Emoji 0.6.
  • Ear of corn U+1F33D. Filed under corn and maize. The dough is made from corn and the husk is the wrapper, by Wikipedia. Emoji 0.6.
  • Honey pot U+1F36F. Filed under honey and sweet. Honey or sugar seasons a sweet tamale in Guatemala, by Wikipedia. Emoji 0.6.
  • Hot beverage U+2615. Filed under hot and drink. In Mexico tamales often come with hot atole, by Wikipedia. Emoji 0.6.
  • Hot pepper U+1F336 U+FE0F. Chilies are on Wikipedia’s list of fillings. Emoji 0.7.
  • Hot springs U+2668 U+FE0F. Filed under steaming and hot. Emoji 0.6.
  • Leaf fluttering in wind U+1F343. Filed under leaf. Emoji 0.6.
  • Pot of food U+1F372. Filed under pot. Tamales are steamed, by Wikipedia. Emoji 0.6.
  • Stuffed flatbread U+1F959. The emoji after Tamale in Unicode’s list. Emoji 3.0.
  • Taco U+1F32E. The third and last emoji CLDR files under mexican. Emoji 1.0.
  • Tamale U+1FAD4. Unicode names the character Tamale. Five search words: food, mexican, pamonha, tamale and wrapped. Emoji 13.0.
  • Wrapped gift U+1F381. The only other emoji CLDR files under wrapped. Emoji 0.6.
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Tamale words and other names 8

  • chuchito Guatemala: the traditional tamale in a corn husk, by Wikipedia
  • hallaca Venezuela: folded in plantain leaves, tied with string and boiled, by Wikipedia
  • humita The Andes, from Peru to Argentina: fresh corn paste in a fresh husk, by Wikipedia
  • nacatamal Nicaragua: the name means meat tamale, by Wikipedia
  • pamonha Brazil: a paste of sweet corn served in corn husks, by Wikipedia. One of CLDR’s five words for the emoji
  • tamal Spanish for one. English made tamale by cutting the s off tamales, as Wiktionary has it
  • tamalera The big covered pot a street vendor steams and serves them from, by Wikipedia
  • tamalli Nahuatl, where the Spanish word comes from. Wiktionary glosses it wrapped

Text tamales, one line 6

  • >(=====)< A husk parcel pinched at both ends. Plain ASCII
  • >(=====)< >(=====)< >(=====)< Three on the plate
  • >(=====)< ~~ Still steaming
  • >(==🌶️==)< With a chile inside
  • >(==🧀==)< With cheese inside
  • >(_____)< Just the husk: the wrapper is not eaten

Tamale combos 14

  • Banana leaf tamale Banana, then leaf fluttering in wind, then tamale.
  • Black tamale Tamale, then chocolate bar.
  • Candlemas tamales Candle, then tamale.
  • Cheese and chile Tamale, then cheese wedge, then hot pepper.
  • Christmas tamales Christmas tree, then tamale.
  • Fresh from the pot Pot of food, then hot springs, then tamale.
  • Gift-wrapped Tamale, then wrapped gift.
  • Half a dozen Tamale, six times.
  • Husk and all Ear of corn, then tamale.
  • Into the steamer Tamale, three times, then pot of food.
  • Many hands Woman cook, then man cook, then tamale.
  • Red chile Tamale, then hot pepper.
  • Sweet tamale Tamale, then honey pot.
  • With something hot Tamale, then hot beverage.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-08 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); 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). Tamale is U+1FAD4, Emoji 13.0, in the subgroup food-prepared: Burrito is printed before it and Stuffed flatbread after it. CLDR gives it five search words (food, mexican, pamonha, tamale, wrapped); mexican lists Taco, Burrito and Tamale and nothing else; wrapped lists Tamale and Wrapped gift; Burrito has wrap and not wrapped. UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt) names no other character for the tamale, the emoji has no text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt, DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt) dates U+1FAD4 to Unicode 13.0, and the Unicode 13.0 page (https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/) gives its release as 2020 March 10. The dish (corn dough steamed inside a corn husk or banana leaves, a wrapper that is thrown away or serves as a plate, the kinds of filling, the pots called tamaleras, hot atole beside it, the shared work of making them, Christmas in Costa Rica and Guatemala, Guatemala’s black and sweet tamales and its chuchito, the nacatamal, the hallaca and the humita) is from Wikipedia, Tamale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamale, CC BY-SA 4.0); the Candlemas meal in Mexico from Wikipedia, Candlemas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlemas); pamonha from Wikipedia, Pamonha (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamonha); where the humita is found from Wikipedia, Humita (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humita). The singular tamal, the back-formation and the Nahuatl word are from Wiktionary, tamale and tamal (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tamale, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tamal, CC BY-SA 4.0). The six text tamales and the fourteen combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, 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.

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