Tropical Drink Emoji
A tall glass with fruit and a straw, the cocktail that means holiday rather than any specific recipe.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Tropical Drink emoji mean?
A tall glass with fruit and a straw, the cocktail that means holiday rather than any specific recipe.
Celebratory and off-duty. The umbrella and fruit are what make it leisure; a plain glass would read as an ordinary drink.
How to use 🍹 naturally
Holidays, celebrations and the end of a working week.
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, Tropical Drink 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
A tall glass with a paper umbrella, a straw and a fruit slice. All three garnishes are the point, since the drink itself is drawn as a plain colour.
- Today
How its use evolved
Holidays, celebrations and the end of a working week.
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.
First one of the holiday 🍹
Friday, finally 🍹
Made it far too strong 🍹
When to use it
Using 🍹 clearly
Holidays, celebrations and the end of a working week. It lands as cocktail 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 tropical drink emoji
What does 🍹 mean in a text message?
A tall glass with fruit and a straw, the cocktail that means holiday rather than any specific recipe. Celebratory and off-duty. The umbrella and fruit are what make it leisure; a plain glass would read as an ordinary drink.
Is 🍹 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are cocktail emoji, 🍹 meaning, tropical drink emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
What does 🍹 mean from a girl or from a guy?
The same thing either way: A tall glass with fruit and a straw, the cocktail that means holiday rather than any specific recipe. The sender's gender does not change what the character means. What does change it is how well you know each other, what the rest of the message says, and whether either of you is being ironic.
Why does 🍹 look different on another device?
U+1F379 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 tropical drink 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 tropical drink 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+1F379 | 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 | \1F379 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F379} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8D%B9 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F379
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- cocktail emoji🍹 meaningtropical drink emoji
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