A small piece of candy wrapped in plastic or wax paper with twists on its ends. Shape and color vary widely by platform. Facebook’s design used to resemble a classic unwrapped red-and-white peppermint. May also be called sweets or lollies.

This emoji tends to spike in use around Halloween.

Candy was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.