Send a happy birthday greeting or wish
Send a happy birthday greeting or wish.
Food & Drink
🎂 Birthday Cake Emoji
A celebratory frosted cake with lit candles for birthdays, anniversaries, and festive milestones.
QUICK FACTS
- Official name
- Birthday Cake
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Subcategory
- Food Sweet
- Unicode
- U+1F382
- Emoji version
- 0.6
- Unicode version
- 17.0
What Does Mean?
The birthday cake emoji depicts a decorated cake topped with lit candles. It is the universal digital symbol for wishing someone a happy birthday, celebrating an anniversary, or marking a personal milestone.
Context note
Primarily associated with birthdays and anniversaries, but also fits general party celebrations.
Quick Meaning
A celebratory frosted cake with lit candles for birthdays, anniversaries, and festive milestones.
Use Cases
How People Use 🎂
Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.
Celebrate an anniversary or company milestone
Celebrate an anniversary or company milestone.
Add a festive touch to party invitations
Add a festive touch to party invitations.
Mark a personal achievement or celebration
Mark a personal achievement or celebration.
Real Messages
🎂 Emoji Examples
Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 🎂.
“Happy Birthday! Wishing you a fantastic year ahead 🎂”
“Celebrating three years of EmojiMint today 🎂”
“Hope you have the best birthday celebration 🎂”
Lookup Data
Names, Keywords and Search Terms
Search terms, common aliases, and lookup keywords.
Official Name
Birthday Cake
Subcategory: Food SweetKeywords & Search Terms
- birthday cake
- cake
- birthday
- candles
- celebration
- party
- anniversary
- sweet
Developer Reference
🎂 Emoji Codes
Copy Unicode, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and programming escape values.
FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F382Code points
U+1F382UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0x82UTF-16
\uD83C\uDF82HTML decimal entity
🎂HTML hexadecimal entity
🎂JavaScript escape
\u{1F382}CSS escape
\1F382 Python string
\U0001F382Discovery
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Emoji Styles
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Microsoft Fluent
MIT License
Google Noto
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
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Unicode defines the emoji character or sequence, while each artwork set decides how it is drawn. That is why the same emoji can look different between devices, apps, and design systems.
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FAQ
Questions About 🎂
Frequently asked questions about meaning, copying, PNG export, and Unicode data.
A celebratory frosted cake with lit candles for birthdays, anniversaries, and festive milestones.
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🎂 represents Birthday Cake. It is commonly used in food discussions, cooking, recipes, meals, and dining plans.
The Unicode code point for 🎂 is U+1F382.
Close alternatives include 🎉 Party Popper, 🥳 Partying Face, 🎊 Confetti Ball, 🎁 Wrapped Gift. Choose the one whose expression or symbol best matches the message.
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