Emoji dictionary
🍬 Candy emoji
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What does 🍬 Candy emoji mean?
The Candy emoji 🍬 displays a round sugar candy in a colorful wrapper. It is commonly used to refer to actual candy, but is also sometimes more generally used in the context of feeling hungry or having a sweet tooth. The Candy emoji 🍬 is also used to describe people or things as metaphorically sweet.
Where does 🍬 Candy emoji come from?
The Candy emoji 🍬 was approved under Unicode 6.0 in 2010. Unlike many emoji, the appearance of the Candy emoji 🍬 varies across platforms. Most platforms depict the emoji as a round sugar candy in a bright wrapper. The emoji specifically resembles a classic red-and-white peppermint candy on Twitter and looks like a purple hard candy on Facebook.
Examples of 🍬 Candy emoji
Who uses 🍬 Candy emoji?
The Candy emoji 🍬 is most often used to represent actual candy—or one’s appetite for it. It is often used alongside other food and candy emoji, such as the Lollipop 🍭 or Chocolate Bar 🍫 emoji, especially around candy-laden holidays like Easter and Halloween.
Shoutout to all of the other parents hiding Easter eggs at 2am. Good on ya for not forgetting!🐰🍬🍫🥚#easteregghunt #EasterBunny
— Brett Gillespie (@W_B_Gillespie) April 21, 2019
HAPPY HALLOWEEN🎃💀👻👺👹😈👽🤖🍬🍫🍭who is trying to go trick or treating with me??
— MARCUS PENDLETON (@K_marzzz_) October 31, 2018
Candy emoji 🍬 is also used to describe a person or thing as being sweet, that is, pleasing, or delightful.
sweet like 🍬….. but he's such a man…. he knows just what it does when he's holdinn me tight and he calls me 🌙✨ too
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) July 1, 2015
Feeling giddy and sweet 🍬#hehe #mood #happy
— Clee Martinez 🦀 (@clee018) April 30, 2019
Hope you all have sweet dreams ❤️🍭🍬🍰🎂
— DaisyyMichelle (@Daisyy_Michelle) April 24, 2019
Note
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