🎂️ Birthday cake emoji
HTML
🎂
Unicode
U+1F382
What is 🎂️ called?
🎂️ is called the Birthday cake emoji.
Also known as cake with candles or celebration cake. These terms reflect common wording, regional usage, or how the symbol looks; Unicode’s official name is birthday cake.
What does 🎂️ mean?
🎂 is officially named birthday cake. A festive layer cake traditionally used to celebrate birthdays and special milestones. The birthday cake emoji represents celebration, joy, and marking important life events, often accompanied by wishes for happiness and good fortune in the coming year.
Use it for literal references to birthday cake and for celebration, milestone, achievement, party planning, special occasions. Lit candles make birthday the official context, although it is also used for anniversaries and celebrations. Related choices include 🍪 Cookie and 🍰 Shortcake.
Other meanings
It can mean celebration, milestone, achievement, party planning, special occasions. Context determines whether the message is literal, culinary, cultural, practical, or social.
Example Usage
Happy 25th birthday! Hope your day is as sweet as cake 🎂
The menu or kitchen message uses birthday cake 🎂
More details
Officially named birthday cake. Its code point is U+1F382. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0.
Related emoji
Birthday emojis
Cheesecake emojis
Dining table emojis
Mickey Mouse emojis
Quinceañera emojis
Visual description
A multi-layer cake with white frosting, colorful sprinkles, and lit birthday candles on top, often showing pink or rainbow layers.
Lit candles make birthday the official context, although it is also used for anniversaries and celebrations. Colours, proportions, orientation, and fine details vary by platform.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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