U+1F382 Birthday Cake
U+1F382 was added to Unicode in version 6.0 (2010). It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F382 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “birthday cake” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: birthday, cake, celebration, dessert, pastry, sweet.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 🎂︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A birthday cake is a cake eaten as part of a birthday celebration. Birthday cakes are often layer cakes with frosting served with small lit candles on top representing the celebrant's age. Variations include cupcakes, cake pops, pastries, and tarts. The cake is often decorated with birthday wishes ("Happy birthday") and the celebrant's name.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 127874 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 8E 82 |
| UTF-16 | D8 3C DF 82 |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F3 82 |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%8E%82 |
| HTML hex reference | 🎂 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 🎂 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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| 6.0 (2010) | |
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