Try Clinking Beer Mugs emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Clinking Beer Mugs emoji mean?
Cheers — a toast between friends.
Friendly celebration over drinks. It works as “cheers” or an invitation to meet, but assumes alcohol and may not suit every audience.
How to use 🍻 naturally
Plans, congratulations and Friday evenings.
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 🍻
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Clinking Beer Mugs was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Two full mugs meeting mid-toast with liquid escaping. The spill is the detail that turns two mugs into a celebration.
- Today
How its use evolved
Plans, congratulations and Friday evenings.
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.
Cheers to the weekend 🍻
Drinks after the conference? 🍻
We finally finished the renovation 🍻
When to use it
Using 🍻 clearly
Plans, congratulations and Friday evenings. It lands as cheers or beer 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 clinking beer mugs emoji
What does 🍻 mean in a text message?
Cheers — a toast between friends. Friendly celebration over drinks. It works as “cheers” or an invitation to meet, but assumes alcohol and may not suit every audience.
Is 🍻 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are cheers, beer, toast, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🍻 look different on another device?
U+1F37B 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 clinking beer mugs 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 clinking beer mugs emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🍻 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. 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+1F37B | 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 | \1F37B | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F37B} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8D%BB | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F37B
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- cheersbeertoast
Put it in a message
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