🥠

Fortune Cookie Emoji 🥠

A folded, wing-shaped cookie split slightly open with a strip of paper poking out one end, the fortune it's named for. Despite the association with Chinese restaurants in the US, the cookie itself traces back to Japanese immigrants in California, and it's used for predictions, vague advice, and 'it is written' jokes about fate.

What 🥠 means

A butterfly or bat-shaped light brown cookie with two sharp ends encompassing the 'U' cut. On some platforms, the 'fortune' or a piece of paper sticks out of one side of the cookie.

Based on the Chinese and American culture, the 🥠 Fortune Cookie emoji signifies a random (or not) prophesy, fate, luck, predictions, and a sense of exciting enigma (the kind one would dig deeper into).

How and when to use it

If you're trying to predict something (in a playful and goofy way) for a close someone, as a way of saying they'd get their way or not, you can use 🥠 - like, "So, as I'm seeing, your cards predict a pair of glasses to see the fkn red flags 🥠".
It can also be used in the context of gassing up someone, "Good Luck. You'd do great in all you do 🥠".
Fortune cookies are believed to spread the 'good luck' if the one who receives it tells someone else. So, in such a context, you can use 🥠 while genuinely wishing something well for someone. For example, "I hope you achieve all that you dream for! 🥠".
If someone fulfilled a small favor for you, then you can use 🥠 as a way of saying, "Gee, thanks a lot, buddy 🥠" (just a sprinkle of some fortune).
If getting a fortune cookie is not something that's common with you, then the idea of a fortune cookie evokes a sense of eagerness, mystery, and childish excitement. So, in such a framework, you can use 🥠. For instance, "Hope your cards hold something exciting for you today! 🥠".

Other Names

🥠 Good Luck Cookie
🥠 Good Luck Lot Cookie
🥠 Fortune Words Cookie
🥠 Lucky Fortune Words Cookie
🥠 Good Luck Sweet Cookie
🥠 Lucky Cookie

The lowdown

Category: Food & Drink › food-asian
Codepoints: U+1F960
Emoji version: Emoji 5.0
Shortcodes: :fortune_cookie:
Keywords: cookie, fortune, prophecy

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.