U+1F9CA "🧊" Ice Cube Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🧊
U+1F9CA "🧊" Ice Cube is a pictographic representation of a single, small, translucent blue block of ice, often depicted with slightly rounded edges and a glossy appearance. Introduced in 2018 as part of Unicode 11.0 and added to the Emoji 11.0 set, it is commonly used in digital communication to symbolize coldness, cool temperatures, frozen drinks, or the literal concept of ice. Its versatility allows it to convey a range of meanings from referencing an actual ice cube in a beverage to metaphorically suggesting a "cool" or unflappable demeanor.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9CA |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Ice Cube |
| 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 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddca |