Tea Emoji — Copy and Paste
Teacup Without Handle is green tea in a handleless cup on every platform, which is not what most people mean by tea. This page gives you all five tea characters, their codepoints, and the gossip reading.
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The five tea characters
| Character | Unicode name | Codepoint | Added | What it shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🍵 | Teacup Without Handle | U+1F375 | Unicode 6.0 | Green tea in a Japanese cup |
| 🫖 | Teapot | U+1FAD6 | Unicode 13.0 | A pot with spout, handle and lid |
| 🧋 | Bubble Tea | U+1F9CB | Unicode 13.0 | A sealed cup with pearls and a wide straw |
| 🧉 | Mate Drink | U+1F9C9 | Unicode 12.0 | A gourd with a metal straw |
| ☕ | Hot Beverage | U+2615 | Unicode 4.0 | A steaming cup on a saucer |
Why none of them is a mug of black tea
The name gives it away: “without handle” means the Japanese cup, and every major vendor fills it with green tea. Hot Beverage has the opposite problem. Its Unicode name is deliberately generic, so in principle it covers tea, but Apple, Google, Samsung and Windows all draw a white cup of dark coffee with steam over it, and readers take it as coffee. There is no character for a mug of tea with milk in it.
The closest honest option is the teapot. It reads as tea to almost everyone, it is not tied to one culture’s cup, and pairing it with the glass of milk gets the rest of the idea across.
Two of the five are new
Teapot and Bubble Tea both arrived in 2020, and Mate in 2019. That is recent enough that an older phone, a work machine with a frozen font, or a website that ships its own emoji images may show an empty rectangle instead. If the message has to land on an unknown device, use the teacup or the hot beverage, both of which are more than a decade old.
Platform differences
Teacup Without Handle is one of the steadier food characters: a pale green liquid in a small cup everywhere. What changes is the cup, not the tea, and on some platforms you are looking down into it rather than at it from the side. Bubble Tea varies more, mostly in the color of the drink and the shape of the sealed lid, but the wide straw and the dark pearls are constant. Mate is drawn as a gourd with a metal straw on every platform, which means it will read as mate and nothing else to people who know the drink, and as an unfamiliar object to everyone else.
Spilling the tea
The teacup stands in for gossip in casual English. It is often paired with a speech balloon, and the phrase behind it is “spill the tea”. This is a slang reading, not a Unicode one, and it depends entirely on who is reading. In a recipe, a menu, a shop listing or a message to someone outside that slang, the cup means a drink. If you need the gossip reading to be unmistakable, write the sentence and use the cup as punctuation.
Repeating it
A row of teacups works as a break reminder or a decorative divider in a note. Set a count, pick a separator, copy the block. The general version of the tool is copy and paste 100 times. A screen reader will announce every one of them as “teacup without handle”, so keep long runs out of anything a person has to listen to.
The coffee side of the same set is on coffee emoji, the milk glass is on milk emoji, plain water is on water emoji, and everything drinkable is collected on the drink emoji hub.