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food-prepared
Butter
1F9C8 · U+1F9C8 · 🧈
What it means
The Butter Emoji 🧈 depicts a golden-yellow pat of butter resting on a rectangular dish or waxed paper, sometimes shining with a soft highlight to show off its creamy richness.
People often use it in chats about baking, cooking, breakfast foods, or spreading something (literal or figurative) for a rich, smooth vibe, as well as in buttery puns and expressions.
While it sits near the Salt Emoji 🧂 and Popcorn Emoji 🍿 in the lineup of food-sidekicks, butter stands out for its smooth block form—perfect for melting, greasing, or adding that essential finishing touch (just keep a digital eye out for buttery fingerprints).
Look it up by typing butter, dairy, spread, baking, margarine, toast, yellow, or creamy on your emoji menu.
People often use it in chats about baking, cooking, breakfast foods, or spreading something (literal or figurative) for a rich, smooth vibe, as well as in buttery puns and expressions.
While it sits near the Salt Emoji 🧂 and Popcorn Emoji 🍿 in the lineup of food-sidekicks, butter stands out for its smooth block form—perfect for melting, greasing, or adding that essential finishing touch (just keep a digital eye out for buttery fingerprints).
Look it up by typing butter, dairy, spread, baking, margarine, toast, yellow, or creamy on your emoji menu.
Keywords
Search terms recorded for this emoji in Unicode CLDR.
Details
| Hexa | 1F9C8 |
|---|---|
| Codepoints | U+1F9C8 |
| HTML (hex) | 🧈 |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧈 |
| CLDR short name | butter |
| Emoji version | Emoji 12.0 · 2019 → |
| Qualification | fully-qualified |
| Category | Food & Drink |
| Subcategory | food-prepared |
Timeline
- Emoji 12.0 · 2019Butter entered the standard as U+1F9C8, 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.
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