Food & Drink · Emoji 12.0
🧊Ice Emoji
Basically, it just means ice. People use it to show they're talking about something cold or frozen.
The 🧊 emoji represents ice.
- Unicode
- U+1F9CA
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :ice_
cube: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧊 Ice emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
People also look for it as ice cube emoji.
02 — Platforms
Ice emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F9CA — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your ice 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
Ice emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :ice_cube:.
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+1F9CA.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🧊 Ice emoji
No picker to hand? The ice can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Ice 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
Microsoft
WhatsApp
JoyPixels
06 — Combinations
Ice emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around ice 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
Who sent the ice and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 🧊 means in other countries
The literal ice cube competes with two unrelated slang meanings that can completely change how the message lands.
Frequently shorthand for ICE, the immigration enforcement agency, in serious contexts.
“Ice” means diamonds or expensive jewelry, so it can read as a flex.
Purely literal — a cold drink, an ice pack, or a refreshment reference.
Before you send it: In political or immigration-adjacent conversations, this can read very differently than you intend.
10 — Apps
What 🧊 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9CA, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
12 — Difference
🧊 vs 💪 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Ice
Code: U+1F9CA · added 2019
Shortcode: :ice_cube:
Basically, it just means ice.
Unicode name: Flexed Biceps
Code: U+1F4AA · added 2010
Shortcode: :muscle:
Generally, it just means “strong” or “powerful.”
13 — History
Where the 🧊 Ice emoji came from
It arrived with the 12.0 release of the standard, which dates the ice to 2019.
Same character every time — U+1F9CA 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.
Ice was approved as U+1F9CA and shipped in Emoji 12.0 (2019). 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.
14 — FAQ