🍩Doughnut Emoji
Generally, the 🍩 emoji just means a doughnut. People use it to talk about wanting one, sharing one, or celebrating something sweet.
The 🍩 emoji represents a doughnut, also known as a donut.
- Unicode
- U+1F369
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :doughnut:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🍩 Doughnut emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
People also look for it as donut emoji.
Doughnut emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the doughnut has been drawn in 3 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Doughnut emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :doughnut:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F369.
How to type the 🍩 Doughnut emoji
No picker to hand? The doughnut can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Doughnut emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Doughnut emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around doughnut for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🍩, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🍩 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the doughnut and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🍩 means in other countries
A cheerful, casual treat marker, with a well-known but harmless stereotype linking it to American police culture.
Casual snack reference, loosely tied to the donut-shop-and-cops cliché in pop culture.
Read simply as a sweet treat, without that stereotype attached.
Before you send it: Fine to use freely; the police association is a light joke, not something to avoid.
What 🍩 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the 🍩 Doughnut emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F369 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🍩 existed there as
KDDI au EB4B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Doughnut was approved as U+1F369 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🍩 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.