Martini Emoji 🍸
Unicode never encoded a martini. The glyph everyone calls the martini emoji is officially Cocktail Glass, and this page hands you that character, the glass-by-glass rundown of what actually belongs in it, and three martini recipes as plain copyable text.
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There is no martini emoji. There is 🍸 Cocktail Glass
The character is Cocktail Glass, U+1F378, from the food and drink block added in
Unicode 6.0 in 2010. Check the name yourself in the Unicode character database: it has never
contained the word martini. That mismatch is the whole problem. The picture is a martini glass to
anyone who has stood at a bar, and the standard calls it something else.
Nothing in the standard specifies the garnish. Apple draws an olive on a pick. Other vendors
change the liquid colour, the stem and whether there is a twist or a cherry, so a message that reads
as a dry martini on your phone can read as something fruitier on the other end. To make the olive
certain rather than lucky, paste 🍸🫒 – Olive is its own character, U+1FAD2, added in
Unicode 13.0.
Which drink goes in which glass
The V-bowl in U+1F378 is a cocktail glass, not a martini-only glass. This is the one thing an
emoji dictionary will never tell you and any bartender will.
| Glass | Nearest character | Served in it |
|---|---|---|
| Cocktail (V-bowl) | 🍸 | Dry Martini, Dirty Martini, Sidecar, Daiquiri, Cosmopolitan |
| Coupe | no codepoint exists; people use 🍸 | Bee’s Knees, Clover Club, most sours served up |
| Rocks / Old Fashioned | 🥃 | Old Fashioned, Negroni, Sazerac, spirits over ice |
| Hurricane / tiki | 🍹 | Zombie, Mai Tai, Painkiller |
| Flute | 🥂 | Champagne, French 75 |
| Wine | 🍷 | Wine, sangria, spritzes |
Dry Martini
- 60 ml gin
- 10 ml dry vermouth
- Lemon twist or olive
- Stir gin and vermouth with ice until the outside of the mixing glass frosts.
- Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- Express a lemon twist over the surface, or drop in an olive. Not both.
The ratio is the argument. Printed recipes from the early twentieth century are noticeably
wetter than what most bars pour today, and the drink has been drying out ever since.
| Style | Gin : dry vermouth |
|---|---|
| Wet | 2 : 1 |
| Mid-century standard | 4 : 1 |
| Dry | 6 : 1 |
| Extra dry | vermouth rinse only |
Dirty Martini
- 60 ml gin or vodka
- 10 ml dry vermouth
- 15 ml olive brine
- Olives to garnish
- Stir everything with ice.
- Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- Garnish with olives. More brine makes it dirtier; there is no fixed measure.
Espresso Martini
- 50 ml vodka
- 30 ml fresh espresso, hot
- 20 ml coffee liqueur
- Sugar syrup to taste
- Shake hard with ice. The hard shake is what builds the foam.
- Double strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- Float three coffee beans. It is credited to London bartender Dick Bradsell and is not, by
glass or by method, a martini at all.
Caveats worth knowing
- Screen readers announce U+1F378 by its official name, so a martini reference is read aloud as
“cocktail glass”. - There is no espresso martini, dirty martini or gin character. Those are strings you build,
not codepoints. - Most services reject emoji in account handles while allowing them in display names. Test
before you commit to one. - For the head term and the character reference itself, see cocktail emoji.
For what people mean when they send it, see drink emoji meanings,
and for the spirit-forward classics see whiskey emoji.