butter

butter meaning

A stick or block of butter on a dish, added in Emoji 13. 0. It stands for cooking, baking and richness — the thing that makes bread, sauces and pastry work. It also carries the slang sense of "butter" as smooth, and "butter someone up" meaning to flatter them.

Meaning

A stick or block of butter on a dish, added in Emoji 13.0. It stands for cooking, baking and richness — the thing that makes bread, sauces and pastry work. It also carries the slang sense of "butter" as smooth, and "butter someone up" meaning to flatter them. Its addition was welcomed by bakers, for whom the absence of butter had been a conspicuous gap.

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How to use it

• Real butter or nothing 🧈
• Butter on hot toast, that is it 🧈
• The recipe calls for an alarming amount 🧈

How it looks

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Google Noto Color Emoji — SIL OFL 1.1 (font) / Apache 2.0 (code).

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Twemoji by Twitter/X contributors — CC-BY-4.0 (jdecked/twemoji).

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OpenMoji by the HfG Karlsruhe — CC-BY-SA-4.0.

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Blobmoji — Apache-2.0 (derivative of Noto).

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This emoji in other languages

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Technical details

Codepoints

U+1F9C8

Emoji version

12

Shortcodes

:butter:

Category

Food & Drink

FAQ

What does the butter emoji (🧈) mean?

A stick or block of butter on a dish, added in Emoji 13. 0. It stands for cooking, baking and richness — the thing that makes bread, sauces and pastry work. It also carries the slang sense of "butter" as smooth, and "butter someone up" meaning to flatter them.

How do you type the butter emoji?

Copy the butter emoji 🧈 directly from this page and paste it anywhere — messages, social media, documents, or code. On mobile, long-press to copy.

What category is the butter emoji in?

The butter emoji belongs to the Food & Drink category.