Bar Emoji 🍸 🍺 🎷

Three different things are called a bar

The phrase splits at least three ways: the place that serves drinks, the bar in a bar chart, and
the progress or loading bar in an interface. This page serves the first one only. If you came for a
chart or a loading indicator, nothing below will help and you should leave now rather than scroll.

There is no bar emoji. There is a set

Unicode never encoded a bar, a pub or a tavern. What it encoded is the contents, and a bar sign is
therefore something you build. That suits a copy-paste tool and defeats a one-character-per-page
dictionary.

Glassware

• 🍸 Cocktail Glass, U+1F378
• 🍺 Beer Mug, U+1F37A
• 🍻 Clinking Beer Mugs, U+1F37B
• 🥃 Tumbler Glass, U+1F943
• 🍷 Wine Glass, U+1F377
• 🥂 Clinking Glasses, U+1F942
• 🍾 Bottle With Popping Cork, U+1F37E

Brass and the stage

• 🎷 Saxophone, U+1F3B7
• 🎺 Trumpet, U+1F3BA
• 🎤 Microphone, U+1F3A4
• 🎶 Multiple Musical Notes, U+1F3B6

The back room

• 🎩 Top Hat, U+1F3A9
• 🎱 Billiards, U+1F3B1
• 🎴 Flower Playing Cards, U+1F3B4
• ♠♥♦♣ the four suits, U+2660, U+2665, U+2666 and U+2663

Finished signs

The repeat tool above is seeded with a short bar sign. Repeating it across a chat window is
exactly what people use this kind of string for.

What renders and what does not

The glassware and the brass are full-colour emoji everywhere. The rest is not, and this is the
part that catches people out.

• The four suits are old text characters with a text default. On most platforms ♠ and
  ♣ render as flat black glyphs in your font rather than as colour emoji, and they inherit the
  surrounding text colour and size. Some apps upgrade them to colour when a variation selector is
  appended; many do not.
• The dice faces ⚀ to ⚅, U+2680 to U+2685, are text-only on every major
  platform. They will never be colour emoji and they render small next to a beer mug. Use them
  knowingly, not by accident.
• Vendor art drifts. Google shipped a beer mug for a while whose foam head floated detached above
  the liquid and a cheeseburger with the cheese under the patty; both were redrawn after enough people
  pointed it out. Artwork is not part of the standard and can change under you.
• Screen readers read the official names in sequence, so a six-character bar sign is announced as
  six separate nouns. Keep signs short in anything that needs to be accessible.

Where to go next

• For the individual glasses in depth: martini emoji,
  whiskey emoji and beer emoji.
• For what each glass signals when someone sends it to you, see
  drink emoji meanings.