Ice Cream Emoji — Copy and Paste
Three separate characters get called the ice cream emoji: the cone, the bowl and shaved ice. This page keeps them apart, gives each one its codepoint, and hands you the rest of the dessert row.
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.
Three characters, three different desserts
Searching for “the ice cream emoji” returns three characters, and picking the wrong one changes what you said. All three entered Unicode 6.0 in 2010.
| Character | Official name | Codepoint | What it shows |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🍦 | Soft Ice Cream | U+1F366 | A soft-serve swirl in a wafer cone |
| 🍨 | Ice Cream | U+1F368 | Scoops in a dish or sundae glass, usually with a spoon |
| 🍧 | Shaved Ice | U+1F367 | Syrup over shaved ice in a cup |
The plain name Ice Cream belongs to the bowl, not the cone. Most people typing “ice cream emoji” want the cone, which is officially Soft Ice Cream. That mismatch is the single most useful thing to know here.
Shaved ice is kakigori
🍧 was added for the Japanese summer dessert kakigori, which is shaved ice with flavoured syrup poured over it. American readers usually read it as a snow cone and Australians as a snow cone too. It is close enough that nobody is confused, but the syrup colour is entirely the vendor’s choice, so the fruit flavour you think you sent is not fixed by the standard.
Rendering across platforms
What you copy is a codepoint; the artwork belongs to the emoji font on the reading device. Apple Color Emoji on iPhone and Mac is shaded and glossy. Google’s Noto Color Emoji on most Android phones is flatter. Samsung ships its own set on Galaxy phones. Windows uses Segoe UI Emoji, redrawn in the rounder Fluent style with Windows 11. WhatsApp, Twitter/X, Facebook and Discord replace all of that with their own artwork. The number of scoops in 🍨 and the colour of the swirl in 🍦 vary between all of them.
What people use them for
Summer captions, shop and menu listings, weather-is-hot posts, kids’ party invitations, reward markers, and repeated runs for emphasis. For a banana split, people build it as 🍌🍦 — the banana has its own page at banana emoji. For the rest of the sweet row, including the cakes and the paper-case ones, start at the cake emoji hub or cupcake emoji.
Caveats
- None of the three take a skin-tone modifier. They are single codepoints and copy cleanly into any field that accepts emoji at all.
- Screen readers announce them as “soft ice cream”, “ice cream” and “shaved ice” — a reader who cannot see the art will hear the official name, which is another reason to pick the right one.
- Newer companions on this page are younger and less safe on old devices: 🧊 Ice Cube arrived in Unicode 12.0 and 🧋 Bubble Tea in Unicode 13.0.
- There is no Unicode line-art ice cream. Anything sold as “ice cream text art” is hand-typed ASCII and collapses in proportional fonts.