Birthday Cake 🎂
🎂 (U+1F382) is a standard Unicode character that you can copy and paste anywhere text is accepted. This page provides a concise reference with safe tips, internal links, and practical guidance so you can use it reliably across apps and platforms.
What it is and where it’s used: Birthday Cake is part of the Symbols family (block: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs). If you need styled or decorative alternatives, try our Fancy Text tool to generate compatible text that works in most modern interfaces.
History & usage: The character depicts BIRTHDAY CAKE. In messages and interfaces, you can use it to celebrate milestones, congratulate someone, or mark a birthday. It also helps illustrate celebrations in apps, such as event threads, party themes, or festive UI elements. Use it to add a light, cheerful note to announcements, reminders, or congratulatory messages. Because appearance varies across platforms, colors and style may differ and could affect how clearly the meaning is read. If a platform lacks color emoji support, a monochrome or text-style fallback may appear. For accessibility, ensure surrounding text conveys the intended meaning and consider alt text or descriptive labels where possible.
Copy and input: the quickest method is to copy the character here. You can also insert it by its codepoint U+1F382 in many development tools or editors. Some operating systems provide a character viewer or input palette that lets you search by name or code and insert the glyph into documents.
Display and fallback: if you see an empty box (tofu) or a placeholder rectangle, the active font might not include this codepoint. Switching to a font with broader Unicode coverage or using a fallback font usually fixes the issue. On the web, ensure the page’s font stack includes a general‑purpose fallback.
Related references: browse the Categories for similar characters. When choosing a symbol, prefer the official codepoint for semantic clarity and better compatibility with search, copy, and accessibility tooling.
See our category page for related symbols.
Technical details
- Codepoint:
U+1F382 - General Category:
So - Age:
6.0 - Bidi Class:
ON - Block:
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs - Script:
Common - UTF-8:
F0 9F 8E 82 - UTF-16:
D83C DF82 - UTF-32:
0001F382 - HTML dec:
🎂 - HTML hex:
🎂 - JS escape:
\u{1F382} - Python \N{}:
\N{BIRTHDAY CAKE} - Python \U:
\U0001F382 - URL-encoded:
%F0%9F%8E%82 - CSS escape:
\1F382
How to type / insert
Fast copy: click the Copy button near the top of this page.
By codepoint: in many editors and IDEs, you can insert via the Unicode code U+1F382 or a built‑in character picker.
HTML: use the numeric entity 🎂 (hex) or 🎂 (decimal) when an HTML entity is needed.
Compatibility & troubleshooting
Font support: if the symbol does not render, the current font likely lacks this codepoint. Choose a font with broad Unicode coverage or allow a fallback font.
Web pages: ensure your CSS font stack includes a general fallback; avoid relying on images for common symbols to preserve accessibility and copyability.