Frosted and sprinkled with a hole punched clean through the middle, the doughnut is the simplest sugar hit in the whole food lineup. It covers coffee-break treats, Homer Simpson jokes, and police-cliche humor, and picks up an occasional suggestive reading thanks to the shape, depending entirely on what's being said around it.
What 🍩 means
A round dessert with a hole in between and a generous layer of chocolate and some rainbow sprinkles on it. The 🍩 Doughnut emoji signifies a special treat for a sweet tooth. It can also have a sexual connotation depending on the prior context of the conversation.
How and when to use it
- Beginning with the implicit usage of 🍩. Use this emoji while posting or reposting videos, pictures, and other formats of information about them doughnuts.
- Besides, 🍩 can also be used while posting or reposting about any famous (or not) doughnut place; information, or even just a meme.
- If someone in your circle is called 'doughnut' out of love, like a pet or a significant other, you can use 🍩 while posting pictures of or with them on your social media handle.
- In a sexting framework, 🍩 can be used to enhance the virtual arousal (lots of imagination. But if you're into it, this emoji would help).
- If you're sending a picture of your evening doughnut platter to someone or even yelling (over text) about how you miss doughnuts at 3 in the morning, you can use 🍩 in those messages.
Other Names
- 🍩 Donut
- 🍩 Bun
- 🍩 Chocolate Bun
- 🍩 Pastry
- 🍩 Danish Pastry
- 🍩 Dunkin' Donuts
- 🍩 Krispy Kreme
🍩 in real conversations
Who actually invented the hole in the doughnut?
Maine sea captain Hanson Gregory is usually credited, sometime around 1847, though the details shift depending on which version of his own story he was telling that year — a dramatic tale has him punching the dough onto the ship's wheel handle during a storm, while Gregory himself later said, more plainly, that the hole fixed a soggy, undercooked center. Either way, 🍩's signature shape traces back to one guy's fix for bad dough.
Why is National Donut Day in June, and what's it actually about?
It honors the 'Donut Lassies,' Salvation Army volunteers who fried doughnuts for American soldiers in France during World War I, reportedly turning out thousands a day using soldiers' helmets as makeshift pans. The Salvation Army made it official in 1938, and it's stayed on the first Friday of June ever since. 🍩 gets a lot of free-donut promotion that day as a result.
Why do doughnuts and police officers get paired together so often?
The stereotype traces to the 1950s, when doughnut shops, kept open overnight because yeast dough needs hours to rise before a 6 a.m. batch, were some of the only places open for cops working the late shift, and shop owners started offering free coffee for the security of a patrol car parked outside. 🍩 still gets dropped into cop jokes decades after all-night diners became the norm everywhere.
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-sweet
- Codepoints
U+1F369- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:doughnut:- Keywords
- breakfast, dessert, donut, doughnut, food, sweet
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
Pairs well with
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⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🍩 Doughnut or 🇵🇱 Flag: Poland?
Runs with a crowd
🍩 keeps company in food emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.