Teacup Without Handle

Unicode lists 🍵 Teacup Without Handle among the drinks in the Food & Drink group. Typical contexts are beverage, cup, drink and handle. Unicode also files it under oolong, tea and teacup, which shows how widely it is read.

🍵 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Food and Drink. Added in 2010 with Emoji 0.6, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+1F375.

• 🍵 on its own already flags the topic: beverage.
• Fits messages about beverage, cup, drink and handle.
• Often seen near 🫖 Teapot, ☕️ Hot Beverage and 🍶 Sake.

The handleless bowl shows green tea, usually Japanese matcha. The tea ceremony chanoyu is an art form elaborated over centuries in which every movement is prescribed; its guiding idea, ichi-go ichi-e, means “one encounter, one opportunity”.

In Britain, tea with milk is an everyday ritual; in East Frisia it is a distinct culture, likewise UNESCO-listed. And in English internet slang, spilling the tea simply means passing on gossip.

• 🍵🥛 – Teacup Without Handle and Glass of Milk
• 🍵🫖 – Teacup Without Handle with Teapot
• 🍵☕️ – Teacup Without Handle plus Hot Beverage
• 🍵🍾 – Teacup Without Handle and Bottle with Popping Cork
• 🍵🍺 – Teacup Without Handle with Beer Mug
• 🍵🍷 – Teacup Without Handle plus Wine Glass
• 🍵🍸️ – Teacup Without Handle and Cocktail Glass
• 🍵🍼 – Teacup Without Handle with Baby Bottle

Easy to mix up with 🫖 Teapot, ☕️ Hot Beverage or 🍶 Sake. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.