U+1F9C9 "🧉" Mate Drink Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🧉
U+1F9C9 "🧉" Mate Drink is an emoji officially named "Mate" that depicts a traditional South American infusion typically enjoyed from a hollowed-out gourd known as a mate, accompanied by a metal straw called a bombilla. This icon represents the cultural beverage made from the leaves of the yerba mate plant, which is popular in countries such as Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and southern Brazil, where it is often shared among friends as a social ritual. The emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0, expanding digital representation of global food and drink customs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9C9 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Mate Drink |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🧉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🧉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddc9 |