🍪Cookie Emoji
Generally, the 🍪 emoji just means a cookie! It’s a simple way to show you’re thinking about sweets or that you want to share a treat.
The 🍪 emoji represents a delicious-looking cookie.
- Unicode
- U+1F36A
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :cookie:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🍪 Cookie emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Cookie emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the cookie 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.
Cookie emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :cookie:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F36A.
How to type the 🍪 Cookie emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Cookie 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
Cookie emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cookie 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🍪 means in other countries
In tech-adjacent chats it can mean tracking data rather than food, so context decides which reading applies.
Often refers to browser cookies or tracking consent, not the snack.
Reads as the literal treat, especially paired with milk or baking talk.
Before you send it: In a dev or privacy-policy conversation, check the context before assuming it means the snack.
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.
🍪 vs 🥠 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Cookie
Code: U+1F36A · added 2010
Shortcode: :cookie:
Generally, the 🍪 emoji just means a cookie!
Unicode name: Fortune Cookie
Code: U+1F960 · added 2017
Shortcode: :fortune_cookie:
Generally, sending the 🥠 emoji means you're offering a hopeful or encouraging message.
Where the 🍪 Cookie 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+1F36A 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 EB4C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Cookie was approved as U+1F36A 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.