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🧋Bubble Tea Emoji
🧋 bubble tea — U+1F9CB, added in Emoji 13.0 (2020). Unicode groups it with the other 20 drink emojis under Food & Drink.
What 🧋 bubble tea means
Drinks mostly organize social plans. ☕️ proposes a low-stakes meeting or signals the morning; 🍻 and 🥂 mark a celebration; 🍷 has become shorthand for winding down. ☕️ also carries the Kermit “but that's none of my business” sense when it follows a pointed observation. 🧋 bubble tea landed in Emoji 13.0 and 🧉 mate in 12.0.
Unicode tags this one boba, bubble and food and files it under Food & Drink → Drink.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9CB | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧋 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧋 | |
| CSS | \1F9CB | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9CB} | |
| Python | \U0001F9CB | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDCB | |
| Rust | \u{1f9cb} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9CB} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9CB} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%8B | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 8B | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDCB | |
| Base64 | 8J+niw== | |
| Decimal | 129483 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 13.0 (2020) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🧋
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “bubble tea”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “boba”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9cband Enter. - HTML — paste
🧋.
How 🧋 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🧋Apple
- 🧋Segoe
- 🧋Noto
- 🧋System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🧋 bubble tea emoji mean?+
🧋 is the bubble tea emoji, tagged boba, bubble and food. Drinks mostly organize social plans. ☕️ proposes a low-stakes meeting or signals the morning; 🍻 and 🥂 mark a celebration; 🍷 has become shorthand for winding down. ☕️ also carries the Kermit “but that's none of my business” sense when it follows a pointed observation. 🧋 bubble tea landed in Emoji 13.0 and 🧉 mate in 12.0.
What is the Unicode code for 🧋?+
bubble tea is U+1F9CB. In HTML that is 🧋, in CSS \1F9CB, and in JavaScript \u{1F9CB}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧋 emoji added?+
bubble tea got its emoji presentation in Emoji 13.0 (2020). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Drink in Food & Drink.
Added in Emoji 13.0 (2020)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧋 bubble tea.