Food & Drink · Emoji 0.6
🍹Tropical Drink Emoji
It mostly just means a tropical drink. People use it to represent cocktails, mocktails, or any fruity beverage that feels summery or vacation-like.
The 🍹 emoji is all about tropical drinks.
- Unicode
- U+1F379
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :tropical_
drink: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🍹 Tropical Drink emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 14 of them.
People also look for it as tai emoji.
02 — Platforms
Tropical Drink emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the tropical drink has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Tropical Drink emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :tropical_drink:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the tropical drink, code point U+1F379.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🍹 Tropical Drink emoji
No picker to hand? The tropical drink can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Tropical Drink emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Tropical Drink emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around tropical drink for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →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.
08 — In conversation
What 🍹 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Around the world
What 🍹 means in other countries
Reads as vacation and poolside relaxation almost everywhere — the most low-stakes of the alcohol-adjacent drink icons.
Standard shorthand for a beach trip, resort, or “treat yourself” evening.
Can look try-hard or overly casual if dropped into a serious discussion.
Before you send it: Safe in almost any social context; save it for actually relaxed conversations rather than work ones.
10 — Apps
What 🍹 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the tropical drink lands changes how it is taken.
12 — Difference
🍹 vs 🐠 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Tropical Drink
Code: U+1F379 · added 2010
Shortcode: :tropical_drink:
It mostly just means a tropical drink.
Unicode name: Tropical Fish
Code: U+1F420 · added 2010
Shortcode: :tropical_fish:
Generally, the 🐠 emoji just means “fish.”
13 — History
Where the 🍹 Tropical Drink 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+1F379 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 E671, KDDI au EB3E.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Tropical Drink was approved as U+1F379 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.
14 — FAQ