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The ice cube emoji, ๐ง, depicts a grayish-blue cube of frozen water. It's the perfect accompaniment to all your digital cold beverages.
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The ice cube emoji is also used in reference to all things cool, both literally (like the weather) and figuratively (like rapper and actor Ice Cube).
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Fancy some ice in your (emoji) drink? ๐ฅ ๐ฅคย Well, you can now with the the ice cube emoji.
The emoji was approved in 2019 under Unicode 12.0. It’s categorized under Food & Drink, which is sensible, as ice cubes are typically used to cool our various drinks. The emoji appears to have been inspired by a March 2018 proposal for an iceberg emoji.
Current versions display the ice cube as, well, a grayish-blue block of ice. On unsupported platforms, the ice cube emoji may display as an empty box.
Screenshot from Emojipedia
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While theย ice cube emoji is only fresh out of the emoji freezer, users have already found a range of clever applications for it.
For starters, the ice cube emoji may be used alongside other Food & Drink emoji (e.g., lemon emoji ๐, for an ice-cold lemonade) in reference to cold drinksโoften of the adult variety.
#StrangeWaysToRelax I do what I call "Going to Italy": I draw a hot bath w/ bathsalts, play the album Romance in Venice, light a Champagne Toast candle, wash w/ Bath&Bodyworks Limoncello, and sip an ice-cold lemonade. So relaxing ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ง๐ฃ๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐ต๐ฏ๏ธ๐ฅ๐๐งhttps://t.co/gh52hcMRDj
— ๐๐ Lazy Dictator ๐๐ (@LazyDictator) April 19, 2019
The shape of the ice cube emojiย has also lent the pictogram to various representation of cube-like shapes or concepts.
.@Boltz absolutely MELTS the two CT's rushing him on an Eco ๐ง#ESLProLeague https://t.co/ZvDWXMCAnq pic.twitter.com/fkiB2YUm3S
— ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) April 22, 2019
Ice is cold, and various terms for cold are used to mean “excellent, good, laidback” (e.g., chill). Expect to find the ice cube emoji used of these and other ice-related expressions, such as an icy stareย or a conversational icebreaker.
LOL the workplace
hella chill ๐ง
We cool out there ๐
Nutsku knows the g.o.a.t. of #techstering— ๐ ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ โ (@globalmarduk) April 19, 2019
Of course, ice is actually cold, so the ice cube emoji sees literal uses for cold temperatures or weather events.
Wind shoves ice ashore along northern Lake Michigan! ๐งhttps://t.co/Vqkwyc2Fkm pic.twitter.com/hlEIHeAwzp
— iceScreen (@icescreens) April 18, 2019