🎂 Birthday Cake

Emoji Meaning

A frosted cake with lit candles, as presented for a birthday celebration. The style of cake widely varies across platforms. With white frosting and strawberries, Apple and Google’s designs suggest a Japanese Christmas cake. Other vendors depict a chocolate, pink, and/or sponge cake.

Birthday Cake was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.