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🎂 Birthday cake
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Subcategory
- Sweets & Desserts
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 6.0 (2010)
- Emoji version
- 0.6 (2010)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What the 🎂 emoji means
A layered cake with lit candles. The standard marker of a birthday, in a greeting or in a calendar note.
Usually paired with 🎉 or 🥳. On its own it reads as a reminder rather than a wish, so a word alongside helps.
Chat examples
Will your readers see 🎂
The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.
- Apple always there
- Google always there
- Microsoft always there
- Samsung always there
Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.
Where the 🎂 emoji is used
The 🎂 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how birthday cake is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- 🎂 Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
| English | birthday cake |
|---|---|
| Русский | торт ко дню рождения |
| Deutsch | Geburtstagskuchen |
| Español | tarta de cumpleaños |
| Français | gâteau d’anniversaire |
| Polski | tort urodzinowy |
| Dansk | fødselsdagskage |
| Українська | торт на день народження |
| Português | bolo de aniversário |
Unicode CLDR 48