Birthday Cake Emoji — Copy and Paste
The birthday cake emoji, its codepoint, and the party set that usually travels with it — balloons, poppers, confetti, clinking glasses. Copy one character or repeat a whole birthday line as many times as you need.
Tap any tile to copy it. Nothing is sent anywhere — the copy happens in your browser.
Repeat it 100, 1000 or 10,000 times
100 copies — 1,999 characters.
What the character is
The official Unicode name is Birthday Cake and the codepoint is U+1F382. It arrived in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. It is a single codepoint with no zero-width joiner, no variation selector and no skin-tone modifier, so it copies as one unit.
Birthday cake is not the cake emoji
Two different characters get called “the cake emoji”. They are drawn differently on every platform and swapping them changes the message.
| Character | Official name | Codepoint | What it shows |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🎂 | Birthday Cake | U+1F382 | A whole round cake with lit candles |
| 🍰 | Shortcake | U+1F370 | A cut slice, strawberry on top, no candles |
| 🧁 | Cupcake | U+1F9C1 | One cake in a paper case with swirled frosting |
If you want the slice and not the candles, the cake emoji hub holds the whole set. The paper-case one has its own page at cupcake emoji.
How it renders on iPhone, Android, Samsung and Windows
You are copying a codepoint, never a picture. The drawing comes from the emoji font on the reading device, which is why the same paste looks different at both ends of a chat.
- iPhone and Mac use Apple Color Emoji — shaded, glossy, with real highlights.
- Most Android phones use Google’s Noto Color Emoji, which is flatter and more graphic.
- Galaxy phones ship Samsung’s own emoji set instead of Noto, which is why “birthday cake emoji Samsung” is a separate search from the iPhone one.
- Windows uses Segoe UI Emoji. Windows 10 drew it flat; the Fluent redesign that came with Windows 11 in 2021 is rounder and shaded.
- WhatsApp, Twitter/X, Facebook and Discord override the operating system with their own emoji artwork, so the app matters as much as the phone.
Unicode does not specify how many candles the cake has. Vendors choose. Any joke that depends on counting the candles stops working the moment the message crosses platforms.
What people paste it into
Birthday messages and group chats, calendar entries and reminder titles, a contact’s name so the birthday shows in the list, a spreadsheet column marking birthdays, and walls of repeated cake. The repeat box above defaults to “Happy Birthday 🎂”; for fixed counts use happy birthday 1000 times. For a toast rather than a cake, take cheers emoji.
Honest caveats
- “Birthday cake emoji PNG” is a different thing. What you copy here is text. There is no image file behind it. Each vendor’s drawing is that vendor’s own artwork and is not free to redistribute, so a screenshot of one is not a safe asset for a product.
- Username and handle fields usually reject emoji, and the ones that accept them often display a box instead.
- Screen readers announce it as “birthday cake” every time it appears. Twenty cakes in a row is twenty announcements.
- Old databases on MySQL’s three-byte utf8 cannot store characters above the basic plane. The symptom is the cake vanishing on save, or the text truncating exactly at it.