What does 🥮 Moon Cake mean?
A round moon cake with a decorative pressed top. Known as yuèbǐng in Chinese, these rich pastries are eaten and given as gifts during the Mid-Autumn Festival, when families gather to admire the full moon. Fillings range from lotus seed paste and red bean to salted egg yolk. The emoji carries a warm sense of reunion, tradition and autumn celebration.
🥮 Moon Cake is an emoji from the Food & Drink category (asian foods), added in Emoji 11.0 in 2018. People use it in messages about autumn, festival and yuèbǐng.
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🥮 Moon Cake on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Moon Cake looks on each platform.
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Moon Cake emoji: questions & answers
How do I copy and paste the Moon Cake emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🥮 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :moon_cake:.
When was the Moon Cake emoji added?
🥮 Moon Cake was added in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🥮 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Moon Cake. The underlying code (U+1F96E) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.