🧋Bubble Tea Emoji
It’s mostly just a way to show you like bubble tea or you're talking about it. People use it in chats to express that they want one, they just had one, or they’re recommending a place to get it.
The 🧋 emoji represents bubble tea, specifically boba tea.
- Unicode
- U+1F9CB
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :bubble_tea:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🧋 Bubble Tea emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
People also look for it as boba emoji.
Bubble Tea emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the bubble tea as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Bubble Tea emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :bubble_tea:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F9CB.
How to type the 🧋 Bubble Tea emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F9CB when there is no key at all.
Bubble Tea emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the bubble tea 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
Bubble Tea emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around bubble tea 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
Reads instantly as bubble tea culture — a specific drink, not a generic beverage, tied to a whole aesthetic online.
Everyday drink shorthand, used the way coffee emoji work in the US.
Became a protest-solidarity symbol during the 2020 “Milk Tea Alliance” pro-democracy movement.
Mostly aesthetic — self-care, treat-yourself, cute-food-photo territory.
Before you send it: Fine to send anywhere; just know it can carry political weight in Southeast Asian political chats specifically.
What 🧋 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9CB, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🧋 vs 🫧 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Bubble Tea
Code: U+1F9CB · added 2020
Shortcode: :bubble_tea:
It’s mostly just a way to show you like bubble tea or you're talking about it.
Unicode name: Bubbles
Code: U+1FAE7 · added 2021
Shortcode: :bubbles:
Basically, it’s used to represent bubbles themselves.
Where the 🧋 Bubble Tea emoji came from
It arrived with the 13.0 release of the standard, which dates the bubble tea to 2020.
Same character every time — U+1F9CB 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.
Bubble Tea was approved as U+1F9CB and shipped in Emoji 13.0 (2020). 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.