🧊 Ice

The 🧊 Ice emoji belongs to the drinks, filed by Unicode under Food & Drink. In practice it comes up around cold, cube and iceberg.

Worth knowing: 🧊 carries a second, informal reading. In chats it often means something other than the literal picture – our overview of double meaning emojis explains which one.

You can drop 🧊 into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. On SmileyZone it is filed under Food and Drink. It joined the standard with Emoji 12.0 in 2019, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1F9CA.

• 🧊 works as a one-character reply when cold is the subject.
• Fits messages about cold, cube and iceberg.
• Often seen near 🧋 Bubble Tea, 🧃 Beverage Box and 🧉 Mate.

Online the ice cube signals coolness in the figurative sense – composure, but also detachment. Through the English phrase ice cold it also marks a particularly cutting remark.

Culturally telling is the handling of ice in drinks: standard in North America, uncommon across much of Europe and East Asia and especially in China, where warm or room-temperature water is held to be better for you.

• 🧊🧋 – Ice and Bubble Tea
• 🧊🥃 – Ice with Tumbler Glass
• 🧊🫗 – Ice plus Pouring Liquid
• 🧊🍺 – Ice and Beer Mug
• 🧊🍷 – Ice with Wine Glass
• 🧊🍸️ – Ice plus Cocktail Glass
• 🧊🧃 – Ice and Beverage Box
• 🧊🍻 – Ice with Clinking Beer Mugs

Easy to mix up with 🧋 Bubble Tea, 🧃 Beverage Box or 🧉 Mate. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.