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🎂 Birthday cake
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🎂 Emoji meaning
Happy birthday! Congratulations, festive occasion, and candles.
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🎂 Meaning
Traditionally, the cake with the burning candles is a birthday cake. The birthday child blows out the candles and wishes for something. Generally for celebrations and congratulations.
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Commonly confused with
Direction Variant
Cupcake vs birthday cake; both used as birthday or party desserts.
Same Shape
Birthday cake vs shortcake; both slices/cakes used for birthdays and celebrations.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Birthday cake” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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+ bday + happy
In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
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- birthday cake
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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+ birthday cake
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ birthday + cake + celebration + dessert + pastry + sweet
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
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- birthday
