Food & Drink · Emoji 3.0
🥃Tumbler Glass Emoji
Basically, it just means “a glass of whiskey” or “a drink.” People use it to show they’re enjoying a drink or referencing one in a conversation.
The 🥃 emoji is a tumbler glass filled with liquid.
- Unicode
- U+1F943
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :tumbler_
glass: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🥃 Tumbler Glass emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 7 of them.
02 — Platforms
Tumbler Glass emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F943 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your tumbler glass looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Tumbler Glass 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 :tumbler_glass:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F943.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🥃 Tumbler Glass emoji
No picker to hand? The tumbler glass can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Tumbler Glass emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the tumbler glass as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
JoyPixels
06 — Combinations
Tumbler Glass emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around tumbler glass 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 for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — 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.
08 — Around the world
What 🥃 means in other countries
A whiskey glass that reads as sophistication in some drinking cultures and as plain alcohol reference elsewhere.
Whisky carries real prestige culture, so this reads as connoisseurship, not just drinking.
Alcohol imagery is typically out of place in formal or family messages.
Can read as insensitive even used as a casual, unrelated joke.
Before you send it: Fits “let’s grab a proper drink” messages between friends; skip it with people you don’t know well.
09 — Apps
What 🥃 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F943, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🥃 vs 🥛 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Tumbler Glass
Code: U+1F943 · added 2016
Shortcode: :tumbler_glass:
Basically, it just means “a glass of whiskey” or “a drink.”
Unicode name: Glass of Milk
Code: U+1F95B · added 2016
Shortcode: :glass_of_milk:
Generally, the 🥛 emoji just means milk.
12 — History
Where the 🥃 Tumbler Glass emoji came from
It arrived with the 3.0 release of the standard, which dates the tumbler glass to 2016.
Same character every time — U+1F943 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.
Tumbler Glass was approved as U+1F943 and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.
13 — FAQ