U+1F382 "🎂" Birthday Cake Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🎂
U+1F382 "🎂" Birthday Cake is a digital pictogram representing a frosted layered cake with a single candle, commonly used in text messages and social media to celebrate birthdays and other joyous milestones. This emoji originated in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, drawing from the tradition of birthday cakes in Western culture, and typically displays as a white or light-colored cake with icing and a lit candle on top across most platforms, though some designs add decorative details like rosettes or sprinkles. Its primary function is to convey celebration, happy birthday wishes, or the concept of a cake itself, making it a staple in online communication for marking special occasions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F382 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Birthday Cake |
| 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 0x8E 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDF82 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F382 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udf82 |