🍶Sake Emoji
Generally, it means sake, the traditional Japanese rice wine. People use it when they’re talking about drinking sake or wanting to share something related to Japanese culture.
The 🍶 emoji represents a Japanese ceramic sake bottle.
- Unicode
- U+1F376
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :sake:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🍶 Sake emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
Sake emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F376 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your sake looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Sake 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 :sake:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the sake, code point U+1F376.
How to type the 🍶 Sake emoji
No picker to hand? The sake can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Sake emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the sake 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
Sake emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around sake 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
Who sent the sake and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🍶 means in other countries
Unicode calls it Sake, but the icon is a generic flask and cup, and Japanese users often use it for “let’s drink” in general.
Frequently stands in for drinking invitations broadly, not literally rice wine.
Usually read narrowly as sake specifically, if recognized as alcohol at all.
Any drinking-themed emoji can read as inappropriate in formal or family threads.
Before you send it: If you mean “let’s get a drink,” a clinking-glasses emoji reads clearer outside Japan than this one.
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.
Where the 🍶 Sake 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+1F376 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
NTT DoCoMo E74B, KDDI au EA97, SoftBank E30B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Sake was approved as U+1F376 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.