Honey pot

What 🍯 means

A pot of honey with a dipper. It means honey, sweetness and 'honey' as a term of endearment.

Tea with honey, cold remedies and baking use it with 🍵 or 🍋. Couples use it as a sweet nickname. It also brings to mind a honey-loving cartoon bear.

In tech, a 'honeypot' is a trap that lures attackers, and 🍯 sometimes appears in security talk.

Facts

Honey pot 🍯 is an emoji in the food and drink category, under food sweet. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :honey_pot:. People also look for it with words like “barrel”, “bear”, “food”, or “honey”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

food & drink · Unicode 6.0