Water Emoji — Copy and Paste
The drink-water set: Pouring Liquid, Ice Cube, Cup With Straw and Beverage Box, each with its official name and codepoint. Tap a tile to copy the bare character, then repeat it if you are building a hydration reminder.
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.
What is actually in the water set
There is no character called “water” in the food and drink group. There are four that carry drinkable water, and the rest of the grid is here because people reach for a cup shape when the water shape does not exist.
| Character | Unicode name | Codepoint | Added | What it shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🫗 | Pouring Liquid | U+1FAD7 | Unicode 14.0 | A glass tipped over, liquid leaving it |
| 🧊 | Ice Cube | U+1F9CA | Unicode 12.0 | A single translucent cube |
| 🥤 | Cup With Straw | U+1F964 | Unicode 11.0 | A lidded takeaway cup with a straw |
| 🧃 | Beverage Box | U+1F9C3 | Unicode 12.0 | A carton with a straw pushed in |
| ☕ | Hot Beverage | U+2615 | Unicode 4.0 | A steaming cup, drawn as coffee |
| 🍵 | Teacup Without Handle | U+1F375 | Unicode 6.0 | A handleless cup of green tea |
| 🫖 | Teapot | U+1FAD6 | Unicode 13.0 | A pot with a spout and handle |
| ⛾ | Cup On Black Square | U+26FE | Text symbol | A signage glyph, not an emoji |
The blue droplet
Most people typing “water emoji” have the blue teardrop in mind. That character is filed with sky and weather, not with food and drink, which is why it is not in the grid above. This page carries the characters for water you can drink. If you want the teardrop, it comes from the weather section of your keyboard, next to the cloud and the umbrella.
How they render across platforms
Cup With Straw is the one that misleads people. Apple draws it as a red-and-white striped fountain-drink cup, and every other major vendor draws some version of a lidded takeaway cup, so it reads as soda rather than water no matter what you meant. If the message is about drinking water, the pouring glass is the safer choice.
Pouring Liquid was added in 2021, which makes it recent enough to matter. On a phone or a work laptop that has not had a font update it will show as an empty rectangle. Ice Cube is the most consistent of the four: a pale translucent cube on Apple, Google, Samsung and Windows alike. Beverage Box varies in a way that changes its meaning, because the fruit printed on the carton is a vendor decision, so a box that reads as apple on one phone reads as grape on another.
Repeating it
The one honest reason to repeat a water character is a hydration reminder: paste “Drink water” with the glass after it, set the count, and drop the block into a note or a status. The general-purpose version of that tool is copy and paste 100 times.
Water text art
There is no Unicode character that draws water as text art. What people use instead is a row of tildes, or the wave-shaped mathematical operators at the end of the grid above: approximately equal to, and its relatives. They are math, not water. A screen reader announces U+2245 as “approximately equal to”, so treat them as decoration in a name or a bio, never as words in a sentence someone has to listen to.
Caveats
Emoji are rejected outright by a lot of username and display-name fields, and the ones that accept them often strip everything above the basic plane, which is all of these except the math symbols. Nothing here has a skin tone or a gender variant. The rest of the drink characters are on the drink emoji hub; for the cartons and fruit versions see juice emoji, for the white glass see milk emoji, and for hot water see tea emoji.