Food & Drink · Emoji 13.0
🫖Teapot Emoji
Generally, it just means tea. People use it to indicate they’re thinking about tea, want to share a cup, or are referencing something tea-related.
The 🫖 emoji is a teapot.
- Unicode
- U+1FAD6
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :teapot:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🫖 Teapot emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as tea emoji, tea pot emoji.
02 — Platforms
Teapot emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FAD6. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Teapot emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :teapot:.
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+1FAD6.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🫖 Teapot emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1FAD6 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Teapot emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the teapot 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
Microsoft
WhatsApp
JoyPixels
06 — Combinations
Teapot emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around teapot 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Around the world
What 🫖 means in other countries
In US internet slang, the teapot ties into “spilling the tea” — sharing gossip — a meaning that has nothing to do with actual tea.
Signals gossip or drama incoming, borrowed from “spill the tea” slang with roots in Black and ballroom culture.
Straightforward reference to afternoon tea culture, no gossip implication.
Before you send it: In casual online chat it can read as “I have gossip” rather than a literal drink reference.
10 — Apps
What 🫖 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1FAD6, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
12 — History
Where the 🫖 Teapot emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 13.0, the teapot has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 6.
Same character every time — U+1FAD6 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.
Teapot was approved as U+1FAD6 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.
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