Birthday Cake
Pastel del cumpleaños
A cake is a frosted layered dessert that is baked. Cakes is traditionally served in celebration of someone's birthday. Although cakes are served at many other events, such as weddings and retirements, this particular cake includes candles, which signifies it as a birthday cake. It is tradition to place lit candles on a birthday cake, sing the "Happy Birthday" song and have the birthday person make a wish and blow out the candles. Naturally, this emoji is used most frequently when a birthday is involved.
Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
- This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
- In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 217 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :birthday: |
| Keywords | Birthday, Birth, Cake, Dessert, Wish, Celebrate |
Unicode Category Information
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Celebration Symbols |
Editorial Comment
A white frosting birthday cake with lots of candles. It's a party!
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
| Unicode Category | Artifacts |
| Unicode Subcategory | Celebration Symbols |
| Names & Annotations | BIRTHDAY CAKE Temporary Notes: birthday |
| Symbol Information | U+1F382 proposed |
| Proposal Identifier | e-511 |
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
| DoCoMo | #73 'Birthday' バースデー 「baasudee」 U+E686 SJIS-F8E7 JIS-783F |
| KDDI | #313 バースデー 「baasudee」 U+E5A0 SJIS-F7BD JIS-783F |
| Softbank | #137 #old345 バースデーケーキ 「baasudeekeeki」 U+E34B SJIS-F9EB |
Emoji Character Encoding Data
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 4 Code |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | |
| Decimal HTML Entity |  |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  |
| Hex Code Point(s) | e34b |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E34B |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 58187 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x8D 0x8B |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 8D 8B |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 215 213 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE34B |
| UTF-16 Hex | e34b |
| UTF-16 Dec | 58187 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E34B |
| UTF-32 Hex | E34B |
| UTF-32 Dec | 58187 |
| Python Src | u"\uE34B" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x8d\x8b" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE34B" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🎂 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🎂 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🎂 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🎂 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f382 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F382 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127874 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0x82 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8E 82 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 216 202 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDF82 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdf82 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57218 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F382 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F382 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127874 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F382" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8e\x82" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDF82" |
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
| Emoji Encoding | DoCoMo | KDDI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | | | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |||
| Decimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾔑 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾔑 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | e686 | e5a0 | fe511 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E686 | U+E5A0 | U+FE511 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 59014 | 58784 | 1041681 |
| UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x9A 0x86 | 0xEE 0x96 0xA0 | 0xF3 0xBE 0x94 0x91 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 9A 86 | EE 96 A0 | F3 BE 94 91 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 232 206 | 356 226 240 | 363 276 224 221 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE686 | 0xE5A0 | 0xDBB9 0xDD11 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e686 | e5a0 | dbb9dd11 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 59014 | 58784 | 56249 56593 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E686 | 0x0000E5A0 | 0x000FE511 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E686 | E5A0 | 0FE511 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 59014 | 58784 | 1041681 |
| Python Src | u"\uE686" | u"\uE5A0" | u"\U000FE511" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x9a\x86" | "\xee\x96\xa0" | "\xf3\xbe\x94\x91" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE686" | "\uE5A0" | "\uDBB9\uDD11" |
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