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Food & Drink

Croissant Emoji

A buttery pastry, shorthand for breakfast, bakeries and French references.

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Meaning & usage

What does the Croissant emoji mean?

A buttery pastry, shorthand for breakfast, bakeries and French references.

Warm and a little indulgent. It carries a French association strongly enough to stand in for the country in captions.

How to use πŸ₯ naturally

Morning plans, cafΓ© posts and weekend treats.

Food and drink emoji are most often literal, but they also signal plans, cravings, celebrations and shared routines. Context is especially important when a food has a slang meaning in a particular community.

From standard to slang

The history of πŸ₯

  1. 2016

    First defined as emoji

    According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Croissant was first defined as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Part of the rapid mid-decade expansion beyond the original mobile set.

  2. Before the keyboard

    Its visual roots

    A curved croissant, added in 2016 and immediately adopted as shorthand for France far beyond anything to do with pastry.

  3. Today

    How its use evolved

    Morning plans, cafΓ© posts and weekend treats.

Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.

In conversation

Examples of πŸ₯ in messages

These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.

  • Bakery run before work πŸ₯
  • Two of these and a coffee πŸ₯
  • Sunday morning sorted πŸ₯

When to use it

Using πŸ₯ clearly

Morning plans, cafΓ© posts and weekend treats. It lands as croissant emoji meaning or πŸ₯ meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding β€” so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.

Common questions

About the croissant emoji

What does πŸ₯ mean in a text message?

A buttery pastry, shorthand for breakfast, bakeries and French references. Warm and a little indulgent. It carries a French association strongly enough to stand in for the country in captions.

Is πŸ₯ always positive?

Not always. Its usual readings are croissant emoji meaning, πŸ₯ meaning, pastry emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.

Why does πŸ₯ look different on another device?

U+1F950 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.

How do I copy and paste the croissant emoji?

Use the copy button at the top of this page. πŸ₯ is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.

When was the croissant emoji introduced?

Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records πŸ₯ as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.

For developers

πŸ₯ in code

Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.

Code formats for the Croissant emoji
FormatValueWhen to use itCopy
UnicodeU+1F950The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec.
HTML (hex)🥐For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8.
HTML (decimal)🥐The same reference in decimal. Both render identically.
CSS\1F950For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value.
JavaScript\u{1F950}A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression.
URL-encoded%F0%9F%A5%90Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests.

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Emoji details

Unicode
U+1F950
Category
Food & Drink
Also known as
croissant emoji meaningπŸ₯ meaningpastry emoji

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