๐ฅฎMoon Cake Emoji
Generally, the ๐ฅฎ emoji simply means a mooncake. Itโs a visual reference to the pastry itself and the associated festival.
The ๐ฅฎ emoji represents a mooncake.
- Unicode
- U+1F96E
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :moon_cake:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ๐ฅฎ Moon Cake emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Moon Cake emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen โ here is the moon cake as 9 vendors ship it.
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 โ iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Moon Cake emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation โ including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :moon_cake:.
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+1F96E.
How to type the ๐ฅฎ Moon Cake emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F96E when there is no key at all.
Moon Cake emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files โ one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Moon Cake emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around moon cake 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 ๐ฅฎ, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What ๐ฅฎ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What ๐ฅฎ means in other countries
A loaded gifting symbol in Chinese business culture โ mooncakes are exchanged formally, and lavish gifting has even drawn anti-corruption scrutiny.
Central to Mid-Autumn Festival, given to family, friends, and business contacts as a formal gesture.
Excessive or expensive mooncake gifting has been publicly discouraged as a corruption symbol.
Before you send it: Great for Mid-Autumn Festival greetings; skip it as a casual snack reference outside that season.
What ๐ฅฎ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings โ where the moon cake lands changes how it is taken.
๐ฅฎ vs ๐ฅ โ what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Moon Cake
Code: U+1F96E ยท added 2018
Shortcode: :moon_cake:
Generally, the ๐ฅฎ emoji simply means a mooncake.
Unicode name: Fish Cake with Swirl
Code: U+1F365 ยท added 2010
Shortcode: :fish_cake:
Basically, itโs just a cute emoji.
Where the ๐ฅฎ Moon Cake emoji came from
It arrived with the 11.0 release of the standard, which dates the moon cake to 2018.
Same character every time โ U+1F96E 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.
Moon Cake was approved as U+1F96E and shipped in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ๐ฅฎ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes โ only the picture does.