Butter emoji 🧈
Emoji 12.0 (2019) · U+1F9C8
What 🧈 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Butter 🧈 is tagged with these keywords: dairy.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing dairy or butter in the emoji search brings up 🧈.
Butter 🧈 is one of 34 emoji in the meals and snacks subgroup of food & drink (132 emoji), next to 🧂 🥫 🍞 🥐.
Will 🧈 show on my friend's phone?
🧈 was added in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Phones updated in the last few years show it; a very old phone may show a box instead.
How to type 🧈
Any emoji picker finds 🧈 when you search for butter.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type butter.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type butter in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type butter.
Codes for developers
Butter 🧈 is a single code point, U+1F9C8. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9C8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧈 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧈 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9C8"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9C8} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%88 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 88 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧈 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the butter emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧈 "butter" and links it with dairy. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the meals and snacks subgroup of food & drink.
When was the butter emoji added?
In Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
How do I type the butter emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🧈 when you search for butter.