What 🍶 means
Sake first; drinks or a celebration by context. Use it for a Japanese meal, a night out or an invitation to drink.
At a glance the flask can pass for a milk bottle. Add the word “sake” when the drink must be unmistakable.
Social and casual, with an alcohol reference.
In work chats, use it only when talk of alcohol is welcome.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsWith sushi or dinner plans
Sake with the meal.
Sent alone before going out
Possibly “Fancy a drink?”
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
2Sushi and sake night.
A toast with sake.
Worth knowing
- 🍶 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🍶 look different on other phones?
Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point. The character you send is identical; Apple, Google, Samsung and WhatsApp each render it in their own style.
How to type 🍶
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “sake”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “sake”.
Chat apps
:sake:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🍶Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🍶
HTML hex
🍶
CSS content
content: "\1F376";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%8D%B6
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.