Cupcake emoji 🧁
Emoji 11.0 (2018) · U+1F9C1
What 🧁 means
Cupcake 🧁 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: bakery, dessert, sprinkles, sugar, sweet, treat.
Those words also drive emoji search: try bakery or dessert 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?
🧁 dates from Emoji 11.0 (2018). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🧁
To find 🧁 quickly, type cupcake into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type cupcake.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type cupcake in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type cupcake.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🧁 as one code point, U+1F9C1: 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+1F9C1 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧁 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧁 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9C1"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9C1} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%81 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 81 |
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 cupcake emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧁 "cupcake" and links it with bakery, dessert, sprinkles, sugar. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sweets subgroup of food & drink.
When was the cupcake emoji added?
In Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. Phones updated since about 2019 show it.
How do I type the cupcake emoji?
To find 🧁 quickly, type cupcake into the emoji search.