What 🍧 means
Shave ice and Japanese kakigori—a shaved-ice dessert—fit 🍧 better than a scoop of ice cream.
In 2026, Apple and Google artwork showed pink-and-white ice; other designs varied the syrup colors or omitted the spoon. Don't use the color to identify a flavor.
Casual, cheerful, and food-focused.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readings🍧 in dessert plans
A craving for shaved ice.
🍧 with 🇯🇵 in a food post
A cue toward Japanese kakigori.
Don't confuse it with
2Combination ideas
2Suggestion: a hot day calls for an icy treat.
Suggestion: a beachside shave ice break.
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 “shaved ice”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “shaved ice”.
Chat apps
:shaved_ice:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🍧Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🍧
HTML hex
🍧
CSS content
content: "\1F367";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%8D%A7
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.