U+1F9C8 "🧈" Butter Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🧈
U+1F9C8 "🧈" Butter is a pictographic representation of a golden yellow block of butter, often depicted with a square or rectangular shape, a slight sheen, and a small pat or melting detail to indicate its rich, creamy texture. Added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0, it is commonly used in digital communication to represent the dairy product itself, cooking and baking ingredients, or in a broader symbolic sense to denote richness, smoothness, or the act of buttering something. Its design varies slightly across platforms but consistently conveys the familiar culinary staple.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9C8 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Butter |
| Block | Supplemental 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 0xA7 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddc8 |