🍬Candy Emoji
Generally, the 🍬 emoji just means candy. People use it to talk about sweets or to express something is enjoyable or delightful.
The 🍬 emoji represents candy, obviously!
- Unicode
- U+1F36C
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :candy:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🍬 Candy emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 7.
Candy emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F36C — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your candy looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Candy emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :candy:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F36C.
How to type the 🍬 Candy emoji
No picker to hand? The candy can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Candy 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
Candy emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around candy 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🍬 means in other countries
The word itself splits by dialect — American “candy” covers what British English usually calls “sweets.”
General term for any sugary treat, from chocolate to gummies.
“Sweets” is the everyday word; “candy” can sound distinctly American.
Before you send it: The emoji reads the same everywhere even if the word differs — safe to use without adjustment.
What 🍬 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the candy lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🍬 Candy 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+1F36C 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 EB4E.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Candy was approved as U+1F36C 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.