🍩 Doughnut emoji

The Doughnut emoji 🍩, also popularly called Donut emoji 🍩, was approved under Unicode 6.0 in 2010. On most major platforms, the emoji resembles a brown doughnut with chocolate icing and multicolored sprinkles. On WhatsApp, the doughnut instead has strawberry icing. Depending on the platform, the doughnut may appear realistic or may be stylized.

Doughnuts are a popular food often eaten as a snack or during breakfast with coffee. For this reason, the Doughnut emoji 🍩 can represent doughnuts and other junk foods or baked goods. If it is used to refer to breakfast, and it is often accompanied by other breakfast-themed emoji such as the Hot Beverage emoji ☕ (to represent coffee) or the Bagel emoji 🥯. If it is used to refer to junk food, it is often accompanied by the many other emoji used to refer to snacks and unhealthy foods, such as the Hamburger emoji 🍔 or the Slice of Pizza emoji 🍕. It is also used to refer to popular food chains and brands that make doughnuts, such as Dunkin’ Donuts and Krispy Kreme.

In popular culture, members of the police are often depicted eating doughnuts, which is portrayed as their favorite food. This is especially the case when the portrayal is in a humorous or negative context. Because of this stereotype, the Doughnut emoji 🍩 can be seen alongside criticism or other negative opinions of police officers.

Doughnuts are also the favorite food of Homer Simpson, a main character of the popular cartoon show The Simpsons. The Doughnut emoji 🍩 is often used to reference The Simpsons or to quote Homer Simpson, especially his iconic “D’oh!”

Rarely, the Doughnut emoji 🍩 can also have explicit sexual connotations, so you may want to double check your DM to make sure you aren’t accidentally implying a double entendre.