Birthday cake Emoji

Food

A tiered sponge cake covered in white frosting, topped with several lit candles and decorative sprinkles. It represents a classic dessert served during birthday celebrations.

Usage Context

Used globally to send well-wishes on birthdays, anniversaries, or milestones. It frequently appears in social media comments alongside 🎈 or 🎁 to mark a special occasion or acknowledge a turning point in someone's age.

History

Included in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this emoji reflects the cultural tradition of placing lit candles on a cake to be blown out while making a wish. Its design was standardized early on to ensure it was recognizable across all platforms as a universal sign for celebration.

Details

Glyph

🎂

Unicode

U+1F382

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f382:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF82;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Food

Subcategory food-sweet

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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