Birthday Cake

1F382 · U+1F382 · 🎂

What it means

The Birthday Cake Emoji 🎂 features a round, layered sponge cake frosted in white or pastel pink, topped with a circle of brightly burning candles (often five), making it instantly festive and unmistakably celebratory.

Most commonly used to mark birthdays, anniversaries, and any jubilant occasion, it also pops up as a universal symbol for parties and milestones, spreading cheer with a side of sweetness.

Unlike 🍰 shortcake (a single wedge) or 🍪 cookie (well, no candles there), the birthday cake goes full circle—literally—standing tall and whole with flames that never run out (a baker’s dream and fire marshal’s worry).

To bring it up, type "birthday cake," "cake," "celebration," or "happy birthday."

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Keywords

Search terms recorded for this emoji in Unicode CLDR.

bday birthday cake celebration dessert happy pastry sweet

Details

Hexa	1F382
Codepoints	U+1F382
HTML (hex)	🎂
HTML (decimal)	🎂
CLDR short name	birthday cake
Emoji version	Emoji 0.6 · 2010 →
Qualification	fully-qualified
Category	Food & Drink
Subcategory	food-sweet

Timeline

Emoji 0.6 · 2010Birthday Cake entered the standard as U+1F382, establishing the codepoint still used today.
TodayRendered across major platforms. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each draw it in their own style while preserving the same underlying character.