🍨Ice Cream Emoji
Generally, the ice cream emoji just means you’re talking about ice cream. It's a simple way to express a craving or share something you enjoy.
The 🍨 emoji represents a scoop of ice cream.
- Unicode
- U+1F368
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :ice_cream:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🍨 Ice Cream emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
Ice Cream emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F368. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Ice Cream emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :ice_cream:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F368.
How to type the 🍨 Ice Cream emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Ice Cream emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the ice cream as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Ice Cream emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around ice cream for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🍨, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🍨 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🍨 means in other countries
About as universal as food emoji get — a simple, positive treat marker across almost every culture.
Reads as a treat, reward, or “let’s get dessert” suggestion, nothing more layered.
Often tied to celebration or reward for good behavior.
Before you send it: Send it without a second thought; it’s one of the least culturally loaded food emoji there is.
What 🍨 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🍨 vs 🍧 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Ice Cream
Code: U+1F368 · added 2010
Shortcode: :ice_cream:
Generally, the ice cream emoji just means you’re talking about ice cream.
Unicode name: Shaved Ice
Code: U+1F367 · added 2010
Shortcode: :shaved_ice:
Generally, the 🍧 emoji just means shaved ice or something that looks like it.
Where the 🍨 Ice Cream emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F368 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🍨 existed there as
KDDI au EB4A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Ice Cream was approved as U+1F368 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🍨 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.