Croissant Emoji

Food

A golden-brown, crescent-shaped pastry featuring visible flaky layers. It depicts a classic viennoiserie, showing the buttery, golden crust characteristic of a freshly baked French croissant.

Usage Context

Used to represent French cuisine, bakery culture, or a morning meal. It is frequently sent when discussing brunch plans, travel to Paris, or simply craving a buttery snack. It is often paired with ☕ for the quintessential coffee-and-pastry breakfast combination.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2016 under Unicode 9.0, this emoji was heavily campaigned for by food enthusiasts who felt the lack of a proper pastry icon was a major oversight in the expanding food category.

Details

Glyph

🥐

Unicode

U+1F950

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f950:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD50;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Food

Subcategory food-prepared

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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