What 🫗 means
A tipped glass mid-pour — or mid-spill.
It covers serving drinks, refilling, cooking pours, leaks, and knocked-over cups, and alone it never says whether you meant to tip it. As a 2021 invention it has no older folk ancestor; context does the work.
When does it mean a memorial drink?
Only beside explicit tribute wording.
The 2019 Unicode proposal listed ritual libation and pouring out a drink for someone who died, so add words like rest well or pour one out to lock that reading.
Neutral and practical; your words decide helpful, messy, festive, or solemn.
Alone, it can't separate a toast from a spill.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsCombination ideas
2Worth knowing
- 🫗 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1Is 🫗 always water?
No. As of 2026, platforms color it blue, red, brown, or orange, so it can read as water, wine, or juice.
How to type 🫗
:pouring_liquid:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.🫗Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.