What 🍷 means
🍷 is the wine glass emoji, filed under Food & Drink in the drink subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 6.0 (2010).
How it is encoded
🍷 is a single code point, U+1F377.
It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.
Casual and alcohol-specific; the rest of the message sets the tone.
Don't send it as an invite to someone who avoids alcohol.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsWith a time, place or question mark
An invitation to meet up for a glass.
As #🍷 on Instagram
A wine tag; a 2019 Instagram search showed it on wine-related posts.
With a #winemom joke
Parenting-stress humour; a 2021 study found wine framed as joking self-care there.
Don't confuse it with
2Combination ideas
2A suggestion for a wine-and-cheese evening.
A suggestion for a pasta-and-wine dinner date.
Worth knowing
- 🍷 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1Is there a white wine emoji?
No. As of 2026 Unicode has none. A winery proposed one in 2018, revised in 2019, as a combination of existing emoji, because 🍷 is drawn red. Spell out “white wine” instead.
How to type 🍷
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “wine glass”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “wine glass”.
Chat apps
:wine_glass:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🍷Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🍷
HTML hex
🍷
CSS content
content: "\1F377";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%8D%B7
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.