Food kaomoji are Japanese text faces about eating and cravings, such as the drooling face (￣﹃￣) or the yummy face (˘ڡ˘). The mouth ﹃ shows drool and ڡ shows a tongue licking the lips. Below are original drooling, yummy, eating, drinking and full-belly faces, each with its meaning and when to use it.
Drooling kaomoji
The ﹃ mouth (a vertical presentation form) looks like a line of drool. Use these when a photo of food makes you hungry.
Classic drool · Replying to a food photo
Dreamy drool · Thinking about a snack
Lazy drool · Late-night cravings
Blushing drool · Cute food pics
Stunned drool · Huge portions
Sleepy drool · Waking up hungry
Big-eyed drool · Dessert menus
Shocked drool · Seeing a buffet
Drool and salute · “Yes, I want that”
Starry drool · Fancy restaurant
Sparkly-eyed drool · Limited-time menu
Wide-eyed drool · Mukbang videos
Drifting drool · Smelling food cooking
Shy drool · Crush cooked for you
Waving drool · Calling friends to eat
Reaching drool · “Give me a bite”
Flushed drool · Spicy food
Cat-cheek drool · Cat cafe snacks
Drool and point · “That one, please”
Tiny drool · Small snack
Intense drool · Last slice
Bored drool · Waiting in line
Yummy and tasty kaomoji
ڡ (an Arabic letter shape) looks like a tongue licking the lips. These say “delicious”.
Tasty · Rating a meal
Very tasty · Food reviews
Cat-like yum · Fish or seafood
Happy yum · First bite
Wide-eyed yum · Surprisingly good food
Soft yum · Homemade food
Super yum · Favorite dish
Chewing (mogu mogu) · Eating while chatting
Smug yum · “I made this”
Rosy yum · Sweets
Flowery yum · Cafe desserts
Cupped-hand yum · Street food
Round yum · Comfort food
Cheering yum · Food arrived
Loving it · Date-night dinner
Gentle yum · Tea and cake
Kaomoji eating specific foods
A face plus a food emoji. The emoji part shows in your device’s emoji style.
Ramen time · Noodle night
Rice ball snack · Lunch break
Pizza party · Friday night
Sharing a donut · Treating a friend
Cake for you · Birthday wishes
Sushi wink · Sushi dinner
Burger offering · Fast food run
Ice cream joy · Hot days
Strawberry toss · Fruit season
Chicken power · Gym meal
Cookie grab · Baking day
Watermelon smile · Summer
Honey bear · Sweet tooth
Cat and fish · Seafood
Toast morning · Breakfast
Chocolate gift · Valentine’s
Fries face · Snack attack
Taco Tuesday · Mexican food
Popcorn movie · Movie night
Bento box · Packed lunch
Pudding joy · Dessert cups
Dumpling hug · Dim sum
Egg chef · Breakfast cooking
Peach smile · Fruit snacks
Lollipop kiss · Candy
Corn munch · Street corn
Tempura cheer · Japanese food
Pasta night · Italian dinner
Chopsticks and cutlery kaomoji
Faces holding chopsticks, forks or a plate, for meals in progress.
Slurping with chopsticks · Noodles
Chopsticks and sushi · Sushi train
Ready to eat · Before a meal
Fork raised · “Dig in!”
Empty plate · Waiting for food
Sharing a meal · Eating with friends
Twirling chopsticks · Cooking at home
Chopsticks ready · Hot pot
Clearing the plate · Finished eating
Spoon in hand · Soup or dessert
Drink kaomoji
Coffee, tea, boba and party drinks.
Coffee break · Morning chat
Juice box · Kids or school
Cocktail cheer · Vacation
Boba run · Bubble tea
Grumpy coffee · Monday mornings
Coffee love · Cafe posts
Calm tea · Relaxing evening
Glass of milk · Bedtime
Soda pop · Movie snacks
Wine toast · Celebrations
Hungry and full kaomoji
Before the meal and after it: empty stomachs, food comas and diets.
Crying over rice · Missing home food
Satisfied sigh · After a big meal
Polite burp · Ended dinner
Thanks for the meal · Thanking the cook
Diet mode · Salad again
Spicy steam · Hot sauce
Eating healthy · New-year goals
Sugar crash · After dessert
Empty plate tears · Ran out of food
Pizza nap · Lazy weekend
Too spicy · Hot challenge
Lunch packed · Meal prep
Cake shock · Surprise dessert
Late ramen · Midnight snack
Ice cream pout · Last scoop gone
Bear with chocolate · Sweet gifts
Copy any face in one tap, filtered by feeling
Tap any food face above and it is copied to your clipboard with every character intact, ready to paste into Discord, iMessage, Instagram or a game chat. Each face is filed by the feeling it shows, so you can pick by mood instead of scrolling a giant list.
Cute / happy / love / sad entry points
Looking for a different feeling? The home library groups every face by mood — cute, happy, love, sad, angry, shrug and more — with a search box and quick mood chips at the top.
What do ﹃ and ڡ mean in food kaomoji?
﹃ (U+FE43, a vertical bracket from the CJK Compatibility Forms block) sits where a mouth goes and reads as a line of drool. ڡ (U+06A1, an Arabic letter) looks like a tongue poking out and licking the lips, so (˘ڡ˘) means “yummy”. Both are ordinary text characters, which is why food kaomoji paste as plain text.
Character
Code point
Unicode block
Role in food kaomoji
﹃
U+FE43
CJK Compatibility Forms
Drooling mouth
ڡ
U+06A1
Arabic
Tongue licking lips
ω
U+03C9
Greek and Coptic
Cat-like mouth
━
U+2501
Box Drawing
Chopsticks
旦
U+65E6
CJK Unified Ideographs
Cup of tea
Do food kaomoji work on iPhone, Android and Discord?
We have not published a per-device test table for these faces yet, so we do not claim how each one renders on iPhone, Android, Windows or Discord. Faces made only of common symbols such as ﹃ ڡ ω ▽ usually display on current phones; faces that add a food emoji show that emoji in your device's own style. Copy a face and paste it where you plan to use it to check.
Submit a food kaomoji
Made your own food face? Search a mood on the Kaomojix home page and use “Suggest a kaomoji” under the results. Suggestions are reviewed before they appear, and we do not show made-up copy counters.
FAQ
What is the drooling kaomoji?
The most common drooling kaomoji is (￣﹃￣): two flat eyes and the ﹃ mouth that looks like drool. It means “that looks delicious, I want it”.
How do you type a yummy face like (˘ڡ˘)?
The ڡ character is hard to type on most keyboards, so copy the face from this page. On a phone you can save it as a text replacement shortcut.
Are food kaomoji with emoji still kaomoji?
Yes. The face part is text and the food is a normal emoji, so the combo works anywhere both text and emoji are allowed.
