Butter Emoji

Food

A golden-yellow slab of butter resting on a small white plate, often shown with a butter knife resting beside it. It represents the staple dairy product used for spreading, baking, or frying.

Usage Context

This emoji is a go-to for foodies discussing recipes, baking projects, or simply letting someone know they are about to eat a heavy meal. It is frequently sent alongside 🍞 to represent toast or 🥞 when describing a breakfast spread.

History

The butter emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of Emoji 12.0. Its inclusion came as part of a push to represent more common kitchen ingredients and everyday pantry items that were previously missing from the digital lexicon.

Details

Glyph

🧈

Unicode

U+1F9C8

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9c8:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDC8;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Food

Subcategory food-prepared

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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