Copy and paste the Birthday Cake emoji (🎂) in one click. Explore its Food & Drink meaning, modern texting slang, chat examples, and Emoji 0.6 / Unicode 6.0 (2010) developer codes (U+1F382).
Unicode Definition: A decorated frosted celebration cake topped with lighted birthday candles.
Context & Expression: Expresses birthday joy, milestone anniversaries, sweet celebrations, and celebratory wishes.
Context Tip: Pairing Birthday Cake (🎂) with complementary emojis or tone indicators helps clarify intent across iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord, and Slack.
Ubiquitous in annual birthday shout-outs across social media ('Happy Birthday! 🎂').
Combine 🎂 with complementary symbols or text labels to make social captions, Slack statuses, and threads immediately scannable.
See how the Birthday Cake emoji looks in everyday mobile messaging.
Happy 30th Birthday Lucas! 🎂 May this new decade bring health, adventure, and massive wins.
Thank you so much! Having a big barbecue with family today.
Enjoy every second of it, have a slice for me!
Apple shows a white frosted sponge cake with strawberries and three lit candles; Google features pink frosting; Microsoft renders clean vector candles with yellow flames.
High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting
System Font: 'Apple Color Emoji'| Platform / Vendor | Glyph Preview | System Emoji Font | Rendering Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple iOS / macOS | 🎂 | Apple Color Emoji | High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting |
| Google Android | 🎂 | Noto Color Emoji | Clean, rounded Noto Color Emoji vector geometry |
| Samsung One UI | 🎂 | Samsung Color Emoji | Vibrant high-contrast One UI color styling |
| Microsoft Windows | 🎂 | Segoe UI Emoji | Fluent Design 3D shading (renders 2-letter ISO codes for country flags) |
| X / Discord (Twemoji) | 🎂 | Twitter Color Emoji | Flat minimalist Twemoji SVG iconography |
Verified Unicode code points, HTML entities, CSS/JS escapes, UTF-8 bytes, and version data.
| Character | 🎂 |
|---|---|
| Official Unicode Name | Birthday Cake |
| Unicode Code Point | U+1F382 |
| HTML Decimal Entity | 🎂 |
| HTML Hex Entity | 🎂 |
| CSS Escape Code | \01F382 |
| JavaScript / ES6 Escape | \u{1F382} |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8E 82 |
| Shortcode (Slack / Discord / GitHub) | :birthday_cake: |
| Emoji / Unicode Version | Emoji 0.6 / Unicode 6.0 (2010) |
| Category & Subgroup | Food & Drink (desserts-sweets) |
Quick answers about meaning, OS rendering, and developer escape codes.
Expresses birthday joy, milestone anniversaries, sweet celebrations, and celebratory wishes. It belongs to the Food & Drink category and was standardized in Emoji 0.6 / Unicode 6.0 (2010).
Ubiquitous in annual birthday shout-outs across social media ('Happy Birthday! 🎂').
Click the "Copy Emoji (🎂)" button at the top of this page to copy the character to your clipboard, then press Ctrl+V (Windows/Linux), Cmd+V (macOS), or long-press Paste (iOS/Android) in any app.
The Unicode code point is U+1F382 (Emoji 0.6 / Unicode 6.0 (2010)). In HTML use 🎂 or 🎂; in CSS pseudo-elements use content: "\01F382"; in JavaScript use "\u{1F382}"; and in Slack/Discord/GitHub use shortcode :birthday_cake:.
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