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🧉Mate Emoji
Unicode added 🧉 mate in Emoji 12.0 (2019), filed under Food & Drink → Drink. Its codepoint is U+1F9C9, and it is tagged drink.
What 🧉 mate 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 drink 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+1F9C9 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧉 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧉 | |
| CSS | \1F9C9 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9C9} | |
| Python | \U0001F9C9 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDC9 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9c9} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9C9} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9C9} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%89 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 89 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDC9 | |
| Base64 | 8J+niQ== | |
| Decimal | 129481 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 12.0 (2019) | |
Keywords
- drink
How to type 🧉
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “mate”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “drink”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9c9and 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 🧉 mate emoji mean?+
🧉 is the mate emoji, tagged drink. 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 🧉?+
mate is U+1F9C9. In HTML that is 🧉, in CSS \1F9C9, and in JavaScript \u{1F9C9}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧉 emoji added?+
mate got its emoji presentation in Emoji 12.0 (2019). 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 12.0 (2019)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧉 mate.