Birthday Cake with candles is the go-to emoji for birthday wishes and celebrations. It is also known as the birthday emoji and cake emoji. 🎂 Birthday Cake is an emoji from the Food & Drink category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F382 and it was released in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🎂 Birthday Cake mean?
Birthday Cake with candles is the go-to emoji for birthday wishes and celebrations.
🎂 is the Birthday Cake emoji, listed under Food & Drink → Sweets & Candy in the Unicode emoji standard. It is commonly associated with bday, birthday, cake, celebration and dessert. It was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :birthday: to insert it.
Birthday Cake emoji codes
| Emoji | 🎂 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F382 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🎂 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🎂 |
| CSS | \1F382 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F382} |
| Python | \U0001F382 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8E%82 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E 82 |
| Shortcode | :birthday: |
| Shortcode (alt) | :birthday_cake: |
How to type 🎂 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “birthday cake”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “birthday cake”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “birthday”.
- HTML: write
🎂in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Birthday Cake keywords
- bday
- birthday
- cake
- celebration
- dessert
- happy
- pastry
- sweet
Frequently asked questions
What does 🎂 mean?
Birthday Cake with candles is the go-to emoji for birthday wishes and celebrations.
What is the 🎂 emoji called?
Its official Unicode name is Birthday Cake, but people also call it the birthday emoji and cake emoji.
How do I copy and paste the Birthday Cake emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🎂 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🎂 Birthday Cake added to Unicode?
Birthday Cake was released as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.
Related Sweets & Candy emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.