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Butter emoji 🧈

🧈 is butter: a yellow block on a dish with a slice cut. It means butter and baking — toast, croissants, cooking — and “smooth like butter”, which BTS fans adopted for…

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What the butter 🧈 emoji means

🧈 is butter: a yellow block on a dish with a slice cut. It means butter and baking — toast, croissants, cooking — and “smooth like butter”, which BTS fans adopted for the 2021 song Butter. It also stands for buttering someone up. Added in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Dairy set: 🧀 cheese, 🥛 milk, 🐄 cow; on the table with 🍞 bread.

Unicode name: butter · U+1F9C8 · Emoji 12.0 (2019) · group: Food & Drink.

IN A MESSAGEsmooth like 🧈

How people use it

  • Baking and cooking: toast, pastry
  • Smooth: BTS, compliments
  • Buttering up: flattery
  • Dairy: with 🧀 🥛

Compare the options

EmojiNameNotes
butterU+1F9C8Butter
breadU+1F35EToast
croissantU+1F950Croissant
cheese wedgeU+1F9C0Cheese
glass of milkU+1F95BMilk

Questions people ask

What does 🧈 mean?

Butter — cooking, or “smooth like butter”.

Why do BTS fans use 🧈?

For the 2021 single Butter.

When was 🧈 added?

2019, Emoji 12.0.

About this guide

Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.

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