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🎂Birthday Cake Emoji
The birthday cake emoji 🎂 carries the codepoint U+1F382 and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Food & Drink → Sweets & Candy.
What 🎂 birthday cake means
Sweets read as reward and as affection. 🍫 and 🍬 get offered the way a small kindness is offered; 🍭 leans playful or flirtatious depending on company; 🍯 turns up as a pet name more than as a condiment. Unicode keeps 🍦 soft ice cream, 🍨 ice cream and 🍧 shaved ice as three separate characters.
Unicode tags this one bday, birthday and cake and files it under Food & Drink → Sweets & Candy.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F382 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🎂 | |
| HTML decimal | 🎂 | |
| CSS | \1F382 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F382} | |
| Python | \U0001F382 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDF82 | |
| Rust | \u{1f382} | |
| Swift | \u{1F382} | |
| PHP | \u{1F382} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8E%82 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E 82 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DF82 | |
| Base64 | 8J+Ogg== | |
| Decimal | 127874 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🎂
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “birthday cake”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bday”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f382and Enter. - HTML — paste
🎂.
How 🎂 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🎂Apple
- 🎂Segoe
- 🎂Noto
- 🎂System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🎂 birthday cake emoji mean?+
🎂 is the birthday cake emoji, tagged bday, birthday and cake. Sweets read as reward and as affection. 🍫 and 🍬 get offered the way a small kindness is offered; 🍭 leans playful or flirtatious depending on company; 🍯 turns up as a pet name more than as a condiment. Unicode keeps 🍦 soft ice cream, 🍨 ice cream and 🍧 shaved ice as three separate characters.
What is the Unicode code for 🎂?+
birthday cake is U+1F382. In HTML that is 🎂, in CSS \1F382, and in JavaScript \u{1F382}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🎂 emoji added?+
birthday cake got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Sweets & Candy in Food & Drink.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🎂 birthday cake.