Treasure
As you can tell from the titles on this blog, I like emoji. In addition to putting emoji in my post titles, I also add an emoji to each item on my todo list.
Recently, I added a financial task to my todo list, pulled up the emoji picker, and typed money. I figured I'd probably use the sack of money emoji (💰) or maybe the stack of dollar bills (💵), but one of the results was something I hadn't seen before: the new treasure chest emoji added in Unicode 17.0 (which, naturally, is the emoji I used in this post's title).
I squinted at it for a moment, frowned, and sighed.
My partner, sitting next to me on the couch, asked what was wrong. I told her that the new treasure chest emoji was appropriate, conceptually, for the todo, but I wasn't sure about how the emoji itself looked. Apple's 2026 version of this emoji contains what looks, to me, like pepperoni pizza. I know those are supposed to be gems—probably rubies—nestled among gold coins, but it looks like a gooey glob of pepperoni pizza to me (and there's already an emoji for that! 🍕). The pizza factor only increases the smaller the treasure chest emoji gets.
After I explained all that to my partner she gave me a confused look, cocked her head, and pointed out—quite correctly—that pizza is one of our greatest treasures, so what's the problem?
I used the treasure chest emoji.