Try Glass of Milk emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Glass of Milk emoji mean?
A full glass of milk, for breakfast, baking and dairy.
Plain and domestic. It is a list item more than an expression.
How to use 🥛 naturally
Shopping reminders, coffee orders and cereal posts.
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 🥛
- 2016
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Glass of Milk was first defined as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Part of the rapid mid-decade expansion beyond the original mobile set.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2017 as a tall glass filled to the top with a visible surface line. That line is the only thing telling you it is full and not empty.
- Today
How its use evolved
Shopping reminders, coffee orders and cereal posts.
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.
We are out again 🥛
Two of these before anything else happens 🥛
Recipe needs it warm, apparently 🥛
When to use it
Using 🥛 clearly
Shopping reminders, coffee orders and cereal posts. It lands as milk emoji or 🥛 meaning 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 glass of milk emoji
What does 🥛 mean in a text message?
A full glass of milk, for breakfast, baking and dairy. Plain and domestic. It is a list item more than an expression.
Is 🥛 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are milk emoji, 🥛 meaning, dairy emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🥛 look different on another device?
U+1F95B 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 glass of milk 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 glass of milk emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🥛 as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. 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+1F95B | 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 | \1F95B | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F95B} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%9B | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F95B
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- milk emoji🥛 meaningdairy emoji
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