A classic burger with a beef patty, typically depicted on a sesame seed bun with cheese, lettuce, and tomato. As such, while officially named Hamburger by Unicode, most platform designs technically depict a cheeseburger.

Platforms stack the ingredients in various orders, with some designs also including onions. Previous designs from Microsoft and Twitter/X included no additional toppings beyond the patty and cheese.

Google previously placed its single slice of cheese under the patty. This design flaw caused a viral internet "controversy" in 2017, which CEO Sundar Pichai humorously addressed by promising to "drop everything" to fix it.

This emoji predates the inclusion of emojis within Unicode. It was first added to early Japanese emoji keyboards by Docomo in 1999.

Hamburger was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.