Birthday cake emoji 🎂
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F382
What 🎂 means
Birthday cake 🎂 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: bday, birthday, cake, celebration, dessert, happy, pastry, sweet.
Those words also drive emoji search: try bday or birthday on your phone to find 🎂.
On the emoji keyboard, 🎂 sits with the sweets (14 emoji) inside food & drink, which has 132 emoji, for example 🍰 🧁 🥧 🍫.
Will 🎂 show on my friend's phone?
🎂 has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type 🎂
To find 🎂 quickly, type birthday cake into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type birthday cake.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type birthday cake in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type birthday cake.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🎂 as one code point, U+1F382: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F382 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🎂 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🎂 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F382"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F382} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%8E%82 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E 82 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🎂 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | birthday cake |
| Português | bolo de aniversário |
| Español | tarta de cumpleaños |
| Italiano | torta di compleanno |
| Français | gâteau d’anniversaire |
| Deutsch | Geburtstagskuchen |
| Türkçe | doğum günü pastası |
| Bahasa Indonesia | kue ulang tahun |
| Polski | tort urodzinowy |
| Русский | торт ко дню рождения |
| 日本語 | バースデーケーキ |
| 한국어 | 생일 케이크 |
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All food & drink emoji →Questions people ask
What does the birthday cake emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🎂 "birthday cake" and links it with bday, birthday, cake, celebration. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sweets subgroup of food & drink.
When was the birthday cake emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the birthday cake emoji?
To find 🎂 quickly, type birthday cake into the emoji search.