Butter

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Shortcode: :butter:
Unicode: U+1F9C8
HTML: 🧈
CSS: \1F9C8
JavaScript: "\u{1F9C8}"
URL: %F0%9F%A7%88

What 🧈 means

A stick of butter with a pat cut off. It means butter and baking, and also 'smooth', as in something that went off without a hitch.

Bakers use it with 🧁 or 🍪. People also say something went 'smooth like butter', like a flawless parking job or a clean handoff. Fans of BTS use it for the group's song 'Butter'.

'Butterfingers', someone who drops things, is another joking use.

Facts

Butter 🧈 is an emoji in the food and drink category, under food prepared. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :butter:. People also look for it with words like “dairy”.