Copy and paste the Mate emoji (🧉) in one click. Standardized in Emoji 12.0 / Unicode 12.0 (2019) (U+1F9C9) under the drink culinary subgroup.
Unicode Definition: Illustrates mate (🧉), standardized in Emoji 12.0 / Unicode 12.0 (2019) (U+1F9C9) within the "drink" culinary subgroup.
Context & Expression: Conveys appetite, hospitality, shared meals with friends, celebration, and comfort-food cravings.
Culinary Tip: Mate (🧉) is ideal for digital menus, recipe lists, restaurant recommendations, and dinner group-chat polls.
Used constantly in dinner-plan texts ("craving 🧉 tonight?"), recipe reels on TikTok and Instagram, restaurant review threads, and foodie bios. Friends also drop 🧉 in group chats as an instant vote for where to eat.
Combine 🧉 with complementary symbols or text labels to make social captions, Slack statuses, and threads immediately scannable.
See how the Mate emoji looks in everyday mobile messaging.
Nobody in this house wants to cook tonight—what are we ordering?
Say less, I am already voting for mate 🧉😋
Sold! Putting the order in right now
Apple iOS renders mouth-watering specular highlights and realistic dishware; Google Android (Noto) and Samsung use warm, appetizing colors with clean silhouettes; Microsoft Windows uses bold Fluent outlines.
High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting
System Font: 'Apple Color Emoji'| Platform / Vendor | Glyph Preview | System Emoji Font | Rendering Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple iOS / macOS | 🧉 | Apple Color Emoji | High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting |
| Google Android | 🧉 | Noto Color Emoji | Clean, rounded Noto Color Emoji vector geometry |
| Samsung One UI | 🧉 | Samsung Color Emoji | Vibrant high-contrast One UI color styling |
| Microsoft Windows | 🧉 | Segoe UI Emoji | Fluent Design 3D shading (renders 2-letter ISO codes for country flags) |
| X / Discord (Twemoji) | 🧉 | Twitter Color Emoji | Flat minimalist Twemoji SVG iconography |
Verified Unicode code points, HTML entities, CSS/JS escapes, UTF-8 bytes, and version data.
| Character | 🧉 |
|---|---|
| Official Unicode Name | Mate |
| Unicode Code Point | U+1F9C9 |
| HTML Decimal Entity | 🧉 |
| HTML Hex Entity | 🧉 |
| CSS Escape Code | \01F9C9 |
| JavaScript / ES6 Escape | \u{1F9C9} |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A7 89 |
| Shortcode (Slack / Discord / GitHub) | :mate: |
| Emoji / Unicode Version | Emoji 12.0 / Unicode 12.0 (2019) |
| Category & Subgroup | Food & Drink (cold-drinks) |
Quick answers about meaning, OS rendering, and developer escape codes.
Conveys appetite, hospitality, shared meals with friends, celebration, and comfort-food cravings. It belongs to the Food & Drink category and was standardized in Emoji 12.0 / Unicode 12.0 (2019).
Used constantly in dinner-plan texts ("craving 🧉 tonight?"), recipe reels on TikTok and Instagram, restaurant review threads, and foodie bios. Friends also drop 🧉 in group chats as an instant vote for where to eat.
Click the "Copy Emoji (🧉)" button at the top of this page to copy the character to your clipboard, then press Ctrl+V (Windows/Linux), Cmd+V (macOS), or long-press Paste (iOS/Android) in any app.
The Unicode code point is U+1F9C9 (Emoji 12.0 / Unicode 12.0 (2019)). In HTML use 🧉 or 🧉; in CSS pseudo-elements use content: "\01F9C9"; in JavaScript use "\u{1F9C9}"; and in Slack/Discord/GitHub use shortcode :mate:.
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