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Cupcake emoji 🧁: cupcake 🧁
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Cupcake emoji 🧁

🧁 is the cupcake: a frosted cupcake with sprinkles. It means cupcakes, baking and sweetness — bake sales, birthdays, “sweet as a cupcake” — and it is the muffin emoji…

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What the cupcake 🧁 emoji means

🧁 is the cupcake: a frosted cupcake with sprinkles. It means cupcakes, baking and sweetness — bake sales, birthdays, “sweet as a cupcake” — and it is the muffin emoji too, since none exists. It is a staple of the pink and cute aesthetics. Added in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Cake family: 🎂 and 🍰 on the birthday guide, 🍪 cookie, 🍩 doughnut.

Unicode name: cupcake · U+1F9C1 · Emoji 11.0 (2018) · group: Food & Drink.

IN A MESSAGEbake sale tomorrow 🧁 made 48 and ate 3

How people use it

  • Baking: cupcakes, bake sales
  • Birthdays: with 🎂 🎈
  • Sweet compliments: “cupcake”
  • Muffins: the stand-in

Compare the options

EmojiNameNotes
cupcakeU+1F9C1Cupcake, muffin
birthday cakeU+1F382Birthday cake
shortcakeU+1F370Cake slice
cookieU+1F36ACookie
doughnutU+1F369Doughnut

Questions people ask

Is there a muffin emoji?

No; 🧁 cupcake is used for muffins.

When was 🧁 added?

2018, Emoji 11.0.

What does 🧁 mean from a guy?

A sweet compliment or baking news.

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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