Cupcake

1F9C1 · U+1F9C1 · 🧁

What it means

The Cupcake Emoji 🧁 features a compact, cylindrical cake with a domed swirl of pastel pink or white frosting, topped with sprinkles and set in a ridged paper cup for a single-serving treat.

People reach for this emoji during celebrations, party planning, or whenever sweet delights, birthdays, and homemade baking are being discussed, making it both a mini cake and a maximal mood lifter.

Unlike 🥧 pie (which comes by the slice) or 🍰 shortcake (fruit-topped and wedge-shaped), the cupcake reigns supreme as the most portable frosting vehicle, and sprinkles are happily mandatory (finally, an emoji you can eat without a fork or a plate—if only virtually).

Type in "cupcake," "frosting," "sprinkles," or "treat" to search for it.

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Keywords

Search terms recorded for this emoji in Unicode CLDR.

bakery cupcake dessert sprinkles sugar sweet treat

Details

Hexa	1F9C1
Codepoints	U+1F9C1
HTML (hex)	🧁
HTML (decimal)	🧁
CLDR short name	cupcake
Emoji version	Emoji 11.0 · 2018 →
Qualification	fully-qualified
Category	Food & Drink
Subcategory	food-sweet

Timeline

Emoji 11.0 · 2018Cupcake entered the standard as U+1F9C1, 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.