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Meaning & usage
What does the Bubble Tea emoji mean?
A cup of bubble tea with tapioca pearls and a fat straw.
Cheerful and specific. It is a meeting-up drink, so it usually arrives with plans attached.
How to use 🧋 naturally
Boba orders, mall trips and anything from the drinks shop.
Food and drink emoji are most often literal, but they also signal plans, cravings, celebrations and shared routines. Context is especially important when a food has a slang meaning in a particular community.
From standard to slang
The history of 🧋
- 2020
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Bubble Tea was first defined as emoji in Emoji 13.0, dated 2020. A full release across faces, animals, food and objects.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2020 after heavy demand from Taiwan and East Asian communities, drawn with visible pearls and a wide straw. Both details were required: without the pearls it is a takeaway coffee.
- Today
How its use evolved
Boba orders, mall trips and anything from the drinks shop.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🧋 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Meet at the usual place 🧋
Fifty percent sugar, extra pearls 🧋
Queue was out the door again 🧋
When to use it
Using 🧋 clearly
Boba orders, mall trips and anything from the drinks shop. It lands as bubble tea emoji or boba emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the bubble tea emoji
What does 🧋 mean in a text message?
A cup of bubble tea with tapioca pearls and a fat straw. Cheerful and specific. It is a meeting-up drink, so it usually arrives with plans attached.
Is 🧋 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are bubble tea emoji, boba emoji, 🧋 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🧋 look different on another device?
U+1F9CB identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the bubble tea emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🧋 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the bubble tea emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🧋 as emoji in Emoji 13.0, dated 2020. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🧋 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F9CB | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🧋 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧋 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F9CB | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9CB} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A7%8B | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F9CB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- bubble tea emojiboba emoji🧋 meaning
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