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🍩 doughnut Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste
Quick info
- Unicode
- U+1F369
- Shortcode
:doughnut:- Category
- Food & Drink
- Subcategory
- sweets & candy
- Added in
- Unicode 0.6
- Also known as
- donut, frosted donut, sprinkle donut
What Does the doughnut Emoji 🍩 Mean?
A ring-shaped pink-frosted doughnut topped with rainbow sprinkles — the doughnut emoji captures the most photogenic pastry on the entire planet in one cheerful icon. Texters use it for breakfast content, coffee-shop posts, donut-shop reviews, and police-doughnut jokes. The Simpsons reference makes the emoji a Homer Simpson signature item.
Krispy Kreme, Dunkin Donuts, and trendy artisan donut-shop content pull it in heavily. Beyond literal doughnuts, the emoji has cultural meaning as a defining "treat yourself" icon — birthday breakfast doughnuts, weekend-morning rituals, and "I deserve this" comfort-food posts all reach for it. The Lalaland Bakery, Voodoo Donuts, and Top Pot Donuts photography traditions on Instagram heavily feature the emoji.
Doughnut-themed merchandise, doughnut-shaped pool floats, and doughnut-emoji birthday cakes all pull it in. National Doughnut Day (first Friday in June) sends usage spiking. Police officers and donut jokes remain a stubborn cultural pairing.
Added to Unicode 8.0 in 2015, the doughnut emoji has aged into one of the most beloved dessert-and-treat icons on the keyboard.
How to Use 🍩 doughnut Emoji
“Saturday morning 🍩 run, family tradition”
“Mmm donuts 🍩 Homer Simpson core”
Technical Details
| Unicode | U+1F369 |
| HTML Entity | 🍩 |
| CSS Code | \1F369 |
| Shortcode | :doughnut: |
| Keywords | breakfast, dessert, donut, food, sweet, doughnut |
| Unicode Version | 0.6 |
Frequently Asked Questions
What does 🍩 mean?
It depicts a pink-frosted doughnut with sprinkles, used for breakfast donuts, Krispy Kreme, Homer Simpson, and treat-yourself moments.
