🥮 Moon Cake emoji meaning
🥮 stands for the Mid-Autumn Festival and the sweet mooncakes people share and give as gifts during it. It can also mean Chinese or East Asian bakery treats in general. Apple's artwork shows a round golden-brown mooncake with scalloped edges and a flower pattern pressed into the top.
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What 🥮 means
The tone is warm and festive. Mooncakes are eaten at the Mid-Autumn Festival, held on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, when families gather to look at the full moon. People in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam, and Chinese communities in the Philippines, Indonesia and elsewhere, send 🥮 with festival greetings, when they receive a gift box, or when they are eating one with tea. Common fillings include lotus seed paste, red bean and salted egg yolk. Outside these communities the emoji is less known and is sometimes mistaken for a cookie or a tart. It has no widely used slang meaning.
In texting
Most of the time it is a seasonal greeting or a note about food, such as thanking someone for a gift box of mooncakes. Sent with 🌕 or 🏮, it almost always means Happy Mid-Autumn Festival.
🥮 How people use it
- Wishing someone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival
- Thanking a friend or client for a mooncake gift box
- Sharing a photo of mooncakes and tea
- Talking about favourite fillings like lotus seed or salted egg yolk
Example messages
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to you and your family 🥮🌕
Got a whole box of 🥮 from my boss, come over and share
Lotus seed with double yolk is the only correct 🥮 flavour
Mom bought way too many 🥮 again 😂
Common 🥮 combinations
- 🥮🌕Mid-Autumn Festival under the full moon
- 🏮🥮🌕Festival greeting with lanterns, mooncakes and the moon
- 🥮🍵Mooncake with tea, the classic way to eat it
🥮 vs similar emojis
| 🥮 vs 🍪 | 🍪 is a flat Western cookie, while 🥮 is a thick pastry with a filling, linked to the Mid-Autumn Festival. |
|---|---|
| 🥮 vs 🎑 | 🎑 shows the Japanese moon-viewing ceremony with grass and rice dumplings, while 🥮 is the Chinese festival pastry itself. |
| 🥮 vs 🥧 | 🥧 is a large Western pie meant to be sliced, while 🥮 is a small single pastry with a pressed pattern. |
Emoji details
| Name | moon cake |
|---|---|
| Codepoints | U+1F96E |
| Category | Food & Drink |
| Keywords | autumn, cake, festival, moon, yuèbǐng |
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FAQ
What does the 🥮 moon cake emoji mean?
🥮 stands for the Mid-Autumn Festival and the sweet mooncakes people share and give as gifts during it. It can also mean Chinese or East Asian bakery treats in general. Apple's artwork shows a round golden-brown mooncake with scalloped edges and a flower pattern pressed into the top.
Which festival is 🥮 for?
It is for the Mid-Autumn Festival, also called the Moon Festival, celebrated in early autumn on the night of the full moon. It is a family holiday in China, Vietnam and many Southeast Asian countries.
Is 🥮 a cookie?
No, it is a mooncake, a baked pastry with a thin crust and a thick filling. It only looks a bit like a cookie at small sizes.
How do you reply to 🥮?
You can reply with a festival greeting such as Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, and add 🌕 or 🏮. If someone sent it about a gift, a simple thank you works.
Are the backgrounds transparent?
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