The shaved ice emoji is basically summer in a bowl—sweet, frosty, and ready to save you from a meltdown (emotional or heat-related). People drop it into chats to signal chill vibes, a cool-off after a spicy take, or to caption beach pics with a wink that says “brain freeze, worth it.” It can be flirty too: “you’re cool and sweet” energy without going full corny-cone. And when someone’s being dramatic online, this is the polite way to say “cool your jets” without typing it out.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a glossy mound of pink-to-white shaved ice served in a blue pedestal dessert cup, front-facing with that glassy highlight Apple loves. No face, no spoon—just a tidy scoop with syrup that fades from bright strawberry pink into frosty white, instantly recognizable in timelines. It reads like Japanese kakigōri at a festival stand, complete with that pretty, airy texture that looks like it crunches.
Culturally, it nods to summer treats everywhere—kakigōri in Japan, shave ice in Hawai‘i (locals drop the ‘d’), raspa in parts of Mexico, bingsu in Korea, and snow cones at county fairs. On social, it often tags along with “hot girl summer,” pool selfies, and “I said what I said” posts that need a rapid cooldown. It’s also meme-friendly for “ice-cold take” jokes, or to “serve” someone dessert after serving them facts. Use it sarcastically when a convo overheats, or as the awkward peace offering after a too-spicy reply—sprinkle syrup, restore vibes.
Definition
Shaved ice is frozen water that is cut into small easily melted pieces. It is traditionally served in a paper cone and covered in a flavored syrup or many flavored syrups. A childhood favorite is to order a "rainbow cone", which means a cone full of shaved ice and colored with many different flavored syrups until the ice is colored similar to that of a rainbow. A rainbow cone may include cherry (red), lemon-lime (green), raspberry (blue), and grape (purple) flavored syrup. Shaved ice may be served with a straw, which allows people to skip the watery ice and jump straight to the sweet syrup flavor that inevitably consolidates with a high concentration at the bottom of the cone. The Apple version emoji is flavored with a single red in color syrup, most likely cherry given its extreme popularity.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
446 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:shaved_ice:
Keywords
Shaved, Ice, Dessert, Treat, Syrup, Flavoring
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Food Symbols
Editorial Comment
Ingredients: Water, Sugar, Happy. iEmoji old name: Ice Cream Sundae An ice cream sundae with a sweet red berry topping.
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Foods
Unicode Subcategory
Food Symbols
Names & Annotations
SHAVED ICE
Symbol Information
U+1F367 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-971
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[カキ氷]
KDDI
#483 かき氷 「kaki氷」 U+EAEA SJIS-F3BE JIS-7A40
Softbank
#176 #old410 かき氷 「kaki氷」 U+E43F SJIS-FB80
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🍧
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🍧
Decimal HTML Entity
🍧
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🍧
Hex Code Point(s)
1f367
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F367
Decimal Code Point(s)
127847
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0xA7
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8D A7
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 215 247
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF67
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf67
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57191
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F367
UTF-32 Hex
01F367
UTF-32 Dec
127847
Python Src
u"\U0001F367"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8d\xa7"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF67"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
