Champagne Emoji: Copy and Paste
Champagne runs on two characters: Bottle With Popping Cork for the opening and Clinking Glasses for the toast. Copy either in one tap, or take a whole celebration string ready-built for New Year and birthdays.
Tap any tile to copy it. Nothing is sent anywhere — the copy happens in your browser.
Repeat it 100, 1000 or 10,000 times
100 copies — 499 characters.
The two characters that do all the work
| Character | Official name | Codepoint | Added | Job |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🍾 | Bottle With Popping Cork | U+1F37E | Unicode 8.0, 2015 | The opening. Cork in the air, liquid arcing out |
| 🥂 | Clinking Glasses | U+1F942 | Unicode 9.0, 2016 | The toast. Two stemmed glasses meeting |
Neither one is officially called champagne
This is the correction worth carrying away. U+1F942 is CLINKING GLASSES, not “champagne flutes” – there is no flute character in Unicode. U+1F37E is BOTTLE WITH POPPING CORK, not “champagne bottle”. No Unicode character name contains the word champagne, and no character is specific to it. Platforms draw the glasses in U+1F942 as flutes with a pale sparkling liquid, which is where the association comes from, but the name is generic on purpose: the same two characters serve prosecco, cava, cider and a promotion at work.
Celebration strings
- 🍾🥂 – opened it, now we drink. The default pairing.
- 🥂🎉🎊 – a toast with the room going up.
- 🍾🥂🎉 – the full three-beat version.
- 🎂🥂🎈 – the birthday build.
- 🥂✨ – the quiet one, when the popper is too much.
New Year
At midnight the string most people send is 🍾🥂🎉🎊 – open, toast, bang, confetti, in that order, because it reads as a sequence of events rather than a pile of icons. 🎇 (Firework Sparkler, U+1F387) slots in when the message is about the sky rather than the table. Keep it short: several messaging apps render a run of emoji at large size only up to a few characters, then shrink the whole run.
How they render
Apple’s U+1F37E is a dark bottle with a visible spray; Google and Microsoft draw the same idea flatter, with less liquid in the air. U+1F942 is two glasses touching everywhere, but fill level and bubble count differ, and Apple adds motion marks at the point of contact. No platform draws a sealed bottle or a single flute.
Champagne in plain text
A flute built from keyboard characters – an upright stem with a bowl above it – is text art, not a Unicode character, and it collapses the moment the receiving app uses a proportional font. If that is what you want, the technique and the working pieces are on beer ascii art, which covers the same problem for glassware generally.
Caveats
- Screen readers announce “bottle with popping cork, clinking glasses, party popper, confetti ball”. A five-character celebration string becomes a list of nouns read at speed.
- U+1F942 is Unicode 9.0 and U+1F37E is Unicode 8.0, so both are old enough to be safe nearly everywhere – but neither has a monochrome text fallback, so a system without the font shows a box, not an outline.
- Sparkling wine that is not champagne uses exactly the same two characters. Nothing in Unicode distinguishes them.
The still-wine bottle problem is covered at wine bottle emoji, and the colour question – including why there is no white or sparkling wine glass – at white wine emoji.