cupcake

Group: Food & drink · Subgroup: Food sweet · Emoji 11

Keywords

bakery
cupcake
dessert
sprinkles
sugar
sweet
treat

About this character

cupcake belongs to the Food & drink group and is encoded at U+1F9C1. It was added in Unicode 11.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F9C1
Hex: 1F9C1
Decimal: 129473
HTML: 🧁
CSS: \1F9C1
JavaScript: \u{1F9C1}
Python: \U0001F9C1
UTF-8: F0 9F A7 81

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

soft ice cream U+1F366
shaved ice U+1F367
ice cream U+1F368
doughnut U+1F369
cookie U+1F36A
birthday cake U+1F382
shortcake U+1F370
pie U+1F967
chocolate bar U+1F36B
candy U+1F36C
lollipop U+1F36D
custard U+1F36E
honey pot U+1F36F

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.