U+1F369 "🍩" Doughnut Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F369 "🍩" Doughnut is a pictographic symbol representing a ring shaped fried pastry, often depicted with icing and sprinkles, that entered the Unicode Standard in 2010 as part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. This character is widely used in digital communication to denote the dessert itself, but it also carries informal connotations of indulgence, comfort food, or a lighthearted reference to police culture, stemming from the popular stereotype of law enforcement officers enjoying doughnuts. Its inclusion reflects the broader effort to encode everyday objects into digital text, allowing for quick visual expression across platforms and devices without relying on images.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F369 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Doughnut |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🍩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🍩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDF69 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F369 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udf69 |