☕Hot Beverage Emoji
Generally, it just means someone is talking about a hot drink – like coffee or tea. It’s a simple way to show you’re thinking about or enjoying a beverage.
The ☕ emoji represents a hot beverage, most commonly coffee or tea.
- Unicode
- U+2615
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :coffee:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ☕ Hot Beverage emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 10.
People also look for it as coffee emoji.
Hot Beverage emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+2615 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your hot beverage looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Hot Beverage 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 :coffee:.
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+2615.
How to type the ☕ Hot Beverage emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+2615 when there is no key at all.
Hot Beverage emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the hot beverage 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
Hot Beverage emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around hot beverage 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
Who sent the hot beverage and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What ☕ means in other countries
Reads as plain coffee almost everywhere, except that ordering habits around it differ enough to matter in a few places.
Cappuccino is strictly a morning drink there — ordering one after a meal marks someone as a tourist.
Coffee is often part of a hospitality ritual, and declining an offered cup can read as impolite.
Casual, to-go culture with no time-of-day rules attached.
Before you send it: Safe to send anytime; the nuance only matters if you’re actually ordering coffee somewhere like Italy.
What ☕ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
☕ vs 🧃 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Hot Beverage
Code: U+2615 · added 2010
Shortcode: :coffee:
Generally, it just means someone is talking about a hot drink – like coffee or tea.
Unicode name: Beverage Box
Code: U+1F9C3 · added 2019
Shortcode: :beverage_box:
It generally means someone is thirsty or wants a drink.
Where the ☕ Hot Beverage 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+2615 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 E670, KDDI au E597, SoftBank E045.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Hot Beverage was approved as U+2615 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.