Bubble tea Emoji

Food

A tall, clear cup filled with a creamy, light-brown milk tea and dark, round tapioca pearls sitting at the bottom. A wide, thick straw protrudes from the top lid, designed specifically to slurp up the chewy pearls.

Usage Context

Widely used to discuss cravings for the drink, suggest a meet-up at a cafe, or express a love for dessert-style beverages. It is the go-to image for foodies, often paired with the 😋 face or the 🍵 green tea emoji to signal a drink run.

History

Bubble tea originated in Taiwan during the 1980s and exploded in popularity across the globe over the following decades. This emoji was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2020 to acknowledge the drink's massive cultural footprint and status as a staple of modern beverage culture.

Details

Glyph

🧋

Unicode

U+1F9CB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9cb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCB;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Food

Subcategory drink

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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