The cookie emoji is a warm, golden-brown chocolate chip classic that screams fresh-baked bliss. On Apple/iOS it’s a whole, top-down cookie with toasty edges, soft gradients, scattered dark chips, and faint cracks—like a bakery ad you can text. It’s the digital stand-in for comfort food, snack o’clock, and the irresistible “just one more” vibe. No bite taken, just pure temptation.
Use it to celebrate dessert drops, humblebrag a bake, or reward someone with a playful “you get a cookie.” It doubles as sarcastic applause—“want a cookie?”—when someone brags about the bare minimum. Pair with the milk emoji for instant cozy-core, or toss it in a flirty invite: “come over, I baked cookies.” It’s also perfect for grandma’s-recipe nostalgia or late-night snack confessions.
Culturally, it’s Cookie Monster energy, school bake sales, and Girl Scout cookie season in one crunchy-soft circle. Gamers and Redditors fling it like a tiny trophy: “here’s a cookie” for a clever comment. It shows up in meme-y rants about “accept cookies” pop-ups and internet tracking, often with exaggerated sighs and privacy jokes. People also use it for breadcrumb metaphors, “smart cookie” compliments, and the classic “that’s the way the cookie crumbles” when life gets, well, crumbly.
Definition
A cookie is a sweet dessert food made by preparing raw cookie dough and baking in an oven. There are many different types of cookies, many of which can be made at home with relatively simple recipes. The classic cookie is a chocolate chip cookie made with the recipe found on a bag of Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chips. Cookies are one of the most popular desserts because they are easily made, shared, transported and eaten. Not to mention that a small batch of cookies can yield (make) more than two dozen (24) cookies, which makes them a popular item to serve to large groups of people. Cookie Monster, the blue monster from the children's show Sesame Street, is the most famous cookie lover in the world. He can eat a batch of cookies in less than a minute.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
338 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:cookie:
Keywords
Cookie, Dessert, Biscuit, Sweet, Chocolate
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Food Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Foods
Unicode Subcategory
Food Symbols
Names & Annotations
COOKIE = biscuit
Symbol Information
U+1F36A proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-979
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[クッキー]
KDDI
#762 クッキー 「kutsukii」 U+EB4C SJIS-F450 JIS-7B31
Softbank
[クッキー]
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🍪
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🍪
Decimal HTML Entity
🍪
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🍪
Hex Code Point(s)
1f36a
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F36A
Decimal Code Point(s)
127850
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0xAA
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8D AA
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 215 252
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF6A
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf6a
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57194
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F36A
UTF-32 Hex
01F36A
UTF-32 Dec
127850
Python Src
u"\U0001F36A"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8d\xaa"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF6A"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)