# 🧈 Butter emoji

🧈 Butter is an emoji in the prepared food set of Food & drink. It was added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. Related words: dairy.

- Emoji: 🧈
- Unicode name: butter
- Code points: U+1F9C8
- Category: Food & drink, Prepared food
- Added: Emoji 12.0 (2019)
- GitHub shortcode: :butter:
- Keywords: butter, dairy
- Page: https://emojichart.com/butter-emoji

## What it means

A rectangular block of pale yellow butter, often shown with a wrapper or a slice cut off. People often pick it for baking, cooking and spreading on toast, and for dairy, rich flavors and breakfast.

## How to type 🧈

- iPhone and iPad: Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “butter”.
- Android: In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “butter”.
- Mac: Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “butter”.
- Windows: Press Windows + . (period) and type “butter”.
- GitHub: Type :butter: in an issue, pull request or comment.

## In other languages

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | mantequilla | lácteo, mantequilla |
| Français (fr) | beurre | beurre, gras, produit laitier |
| Deutsch (de) | Butter | Butter, Essen, Lebensmittel, Milchprodukt, Nahrung |
| Italiano (it) | burro | alimento, burro, cibo, latticini, latticino |
| Português (pt) | manteiga | laticínio, manteiga, margarina |
| Nederlands (nl) | boter | boter, zuivel |
| Svenska (sv) | smör | mjölkprodukt, smör |
| Polski (pl) | masło | jedzenie, masło, nabiał |
| Türkçe (tr) | tereyağı | süt ürünü, tereyağ, tereyağı |
| Русский (ru) | масло | готовить, еда, масленка, масло, масляный, молокопродукты, молочный, сливки, сливочное |
| Українська (uk) | масло | масло, молочні продукти |
| Ελληνικά (el) | βούτυρο | βούτυρο, γαλακτοκομικά |
| العربية (ar) | زبد | أكل, ألبان, جبن, جبنة, زبد, زبدة, طعام, قشدة, منتجات ألبان |
| עברית (he) | חמאה | חמאה, מוצרי חלב, מרגרינה |
| فارسی (fa) | کره | کره, لبنیات |
| हिन्दी (hi) | मक्खन | डेयरी, डेरी, दूध से बने पदार्थ, बटर, मक्खन |
| বাংলা (bn) | মাখন | খাদ্য ও পানীয়, খাবার, ডেয়ারি, মাখন |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | mentega | mentega, produk susu |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | bơ | bơ, bơ sữa |
| ไทย (th) | เนย | นม, เนย, วัว, อาหาร |
| 日本語 (ja) | バター | バター, 乳製品 |
| 한국어 (ko) | 버터 | 버터, 유제품 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 黄油 | 乳制品, 牛奶, 黄油 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 奶油 | 乳製品, 奶油 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): botter
- Akan (ak): bɔta
- Albanian (sq): gjalpë
- Amharic (am): ቅቤ
- Anii (blo): bɛɛ
- Armenian (hy): կարագ
- Assamese (as): মাখন
- Azerbaijani (az): kərə yağı
- Bashkir (ba): май
- Basque (eu): gurina
- Belarusian (be): масла
- Bosnian (bs): puter
- Breton (br): amann
- Bulgarian (bg): масло
- Burmese (my): ထောပတ်
- Cantonese (yue): 牛油
- Catalan (ca): mantega
- Cherokee (chr): ᎪᏢᎾ
- Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR China) (zh-Hant-HK): 牛油
- Chuvash (cv): услам ҫу
- Croatian (hr): maslac
- Czech (cs): máslo
- Danish (da): smør
- Estonian (et): või
- Faroese (fo): smør
- Filipino (fil): mantikilya
- Finnish (fi): voi
- Galician (gl): manteiga
- Georgian (ka): კარაქი
- Gujarati (gu): માખણ
- Hausa (ha): bota
- Hungarian (hu): vaj
- Icelandic (is): smjör
- Igbo (ig): bọta
- Irish (ga): im
- Javanese (jv): mertega
- Kannada (kn): ಬೆಣ್ಣೆ
- Kazakh (kk): сары май
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): سارى ماي
- Khmer (km): បឺរ
- Konkani (kok): लोणी
- Kyrgyz (ky): май
- Lao (lo): ເນີຍ
- Latvian (lv): sviests
- Lithuanian (lt): sviestas
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): butra
- Macedonian (mk): путер
- Malay (ms): mentega
- Malayalam (ml): ബട്ടർ
- Marathi (mr): लोणी
- Mongolian (mn): цөцгийн тос
- Nepali (ne): बट्टर
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Bọ́ta
- Norwegian (no): smør
- Odia (or): ଲହୁଣୀ
- Oromo (om): dhadhaa
- Pashto (ps): کوچ
- Punjabi (pa): ਮੱਖਣ
- Quechua (qu): mantequilla
- Romanian (ro): unt
- Romansh (rm): paintg
- Sardinian (sc): butiru
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): ìm
- Serbian (sr): путер
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): puter
- Shan (shn): ၶႆၼိူၺ်း
- Sindhi (sd): مکڻ
- Sinhala (si): බටර්
- Slovak (sk): maslo
- Slovenian (sl): maslo
- Somali (so): subag
- Swahili (sw): siagi
- Tamil (ta): வெண்ணெய்
- Telugu (te): వెన్న
- Tigrinya (ti): ጠስሚ
- Tongan (to): pata
- Turkmen (tk): mesge
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): butra
- Urdu (ur): مکھن
- Uzbek (uz): sariyogʻ
- Welsh (cy): menyn
- Yoruba (yo): bọ́tà
- Yoruba (Benin) (yo-BJ): bɔ́tà
- Zulu (zu): ibhatha

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Code points | `U+1F9C8` |
| HTML | `🧈` |
| CSS | `\1F9C8` |
| JavaScript, Rust, Swift | `\u{1F9C8}` |
| Python | `\U0001F9C8` |
| UTF-8 bytes | `F0 9F A7 88` |
| UTF-16 | `D83E DDC8` |
| URL encoded | `%F0%9F%A7%88` |

## Questions

### What does the 🧈 butter emoji mean?

A rectangular block of pale yellow butter, often shown with a wrapper or a slice cut off. People often pick it for baking, cooking and spreading on toast, and for dairy, rich flavors and breakfast.

### How do I type the 🧈 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “butter”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :butter:.

### When was the 🧈 emoji added?

🧈 was added in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019.

### What is the Unicode code point for 🧈?

U+1F9C8. In HTML you can write 🧈, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F9C8}.

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Source: Unicode Emoji 18.0 and Unicode CLDR 49.0.0. Emoji Chart · https://emojichart.com/butter-emoji