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Food & Drink

Lollipop Emoji

A swirled lollipop, for sweets, childhood and bright colour.

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Meaning & usage

What does the Lollipop emoji mean?

A swirled lollipop, for sweets, childhood and bright colour.

Playful and childlike. Aesthetic bios use it for colour as often as anyone uses it for sweets.

How to use 🍭 naturally

Sweet shop photos, children's parties and pastel aesthetic posts.

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 🍭

  1. 2010

    First defined as emoji

    According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Lollipop was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.

  2. Before the keyboard

    Its visual roots

    A round swirl on a white stick, from the carrier set. The spiral is drawn in two or three colours depending on the platform, and it is the only detail the design needs.

  3. Today

    How its use evolved

    Sweet shop photos, children's parties and pastel aesthetic posts.

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 🍭 in messages

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

  • Dentist appointment tomorrow, unrelated 🍭
  • Party bags are done 🍭
  • Pink and lilac everything 🍭

When to use it

Using 🍭 clearly

Sweet shop photos, children's parties and pastel aesthetic posts. It lands as lollipop emoji or candy emoji 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 lollipop emoji

What does 🍭 mean in a text message?

A swirled lollipop, for sweets, childhood and bright colour. Playful and childlike. Aesthetic bios use it for colour as often as anyone uses it for sweets.

Is 🍭 always positive?

Not always. Its usual readings are lollipop emoji, candy emoji, 🍭 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.

Why does 🍭 look different on another device?

U+1F36D 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 lollipop emoji?

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

When was the lollipop emoji introduced?

Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🍭 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. 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

🍭 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 Lollipop emoji
FormatValueWhen to use itCopy
UnicodeU+1F36DThe 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\1F36DFor the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value.
JavaScript\u{1F36D}A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression.
URL-encoded%F0%9F%8D%ADPercent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests.

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Emoji details

Unicode
U+1F36D
Category
Food & Drink
Also known as
lollipop emojicandy emoji🍭 meaning

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