Shot Emoji 🥃
There is no shot glass in Unicode. Two characters do the job: Tumbler Glass, which every platform draws as a short heavy glass, and the tiny cup in Sake Bottle And Cup. Copy both here, along with ready-made strings for a round.
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The shot glass that does not exist
No codepoint in Unicode is named for a shot glass. Two characters get used instead, and they are
not equally good.
- Tumbler Glass, U+1F943 🥃 – added in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. In a bar a
tumbler is a rocks or lowball glass holding far more than a shot. It is still the right pick: the
only short, heavy, straight-sided glass in the set, and it reads as a shot at message size. - Sake Bottle And Cup, U+1F376 🍶 – Unicode 6.0, 2010. The ochoko cup beside
the flask is the only genuinely shot-sized vessel in the whole emoji set. It drags a bottle along
with it, and a screen reader says “sake bottle and cup” – a strange thing to hear attached to a
tequila message.
Strings for a round
| String | Reads as |
|---|---|
| 🥃🥃🥃 | A round of three |
| 🥃🎉 | Shots, and a reason for them |
| 🥃🧂🍋 | Tequila service |
| 🥃🧊 | Short, but over ice |
| 🍶🍶 | Sake, poured for someone else |
The repeat tool above is seeded with the tumbler for the obvious reason. A wall of them in a
group chat is the single most common thing anyone does with this character.
How it renders
Vendors disagree about the contents. Some draw the tumbler with ice in the amber spirit, some draw
it clean, and the fill level moves too. Check your own keyboard before relying on the ice being
visible – if it matters, append Ice Cube, U+1F9CA 🧊. The sake pair varies too:
the flask is upright on some platforms and tilted mid-pour on others.
Sidecar, served short
- 50 ml cognac
- 20 ml orange liqueur
- 20 ml lemon juice
- Sugar rim, optional and contested
- Shake hard with ice.
- Strain into a small chilled glass.
- No garnish needed. Both Paris and London bars have claimed the drink; nobody has settled it.
Tequila shot, done properly
- Use a decent 100% agave blanco. The ritual exists to survive bad tequila; good tequila does not
need it. - Lick the back of the hand, salt it.
- Salt, shot, lime – in that order, without pausing between them.
- In Mexico the same spirit is more often sipped neat with sangrita alongside.
B-52, layered
- 15 ml coffee liqueur
- 15 ml Irish cream
- 15 ml orange liqueur
- Pour the coffee liqueur first. It is the densest, so it stays at the bottom.
- Float the Irish cream over the back of a bar spoon held against the glass wall.
- Float the orange liqueur the same way. Density order is the entire trick; pour it fast and you
get a muddy brown drink.
Before you paste it
- Neither character means alcohol to a machine. Moderation filters read the codepoint, not the
intent, so nothing here is safe to assume about how a platform will treat it. - U+1F943 sits outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, so older forms and legacy databases sometimes
drop it or mangle it into a question mark. - Same glyph, different job: whiskey emoji covers naming and the long
stirred classics, bar emoji builds a whole bar sign out of Unicode, and
guess the drink by emoji puts these strings to work as
puzzles.