Candy Emoji

Food

A bright purple, twisted wrapper containing a hard candy. The graphic depicts a classic piece of confectionary, knotted at both ends to keep the treat secure inside its packaging.

Usage Context

Used to represent sweets, desserts, or a sugar craving. It frequently pops up in conversations about Halloween, treats for children, or as a playful way to call someone 'sweet.' It is often paired with the 🍫 or 🍭 to round out a sugary snack menu.

History

Added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this emoji was part of a larger push to include more snack-related icons as mobile messaging evolved into a more visual, expressive format for casual daily communication.

Details

Glyph

🍬

Unicode

U+1F36C

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f36c:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF6C;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Food

Subcategory food-sweet

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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