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馃 Ice Cube emoji
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What does听馃 Ice Cube emoji听mean?
The Ice Cube听emoji 馃, depicts a grayish-blue cube of frozen water. It’s the perfect accompaniment to all your digital cold beverages.
The Ice Cube听emoji 馃听is also used in reference to all things cool, both literally (like the weather) and figuratively (like rapper and actor Ice Cube).
Where does 馃 Ice Cube emoji come from?
Fancy some ice in your (emoji) drink? 馃 馃イ Well, now you can have it, with the Ice Cube听emoji 馃.
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 Ice Cube听emoji 馃 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听emoji 馃听may display as an empty box.
Examples of 馃 Ice Cube emoji
Who uses 馃 Ice Cube emoji?
While the Ice Cube听emoji 馃听is only fresh out of the emoji freezer, users have already found a range of clever applications for it.
For starters, the Ice Cube听emoji 馃听may be used alongside other Food & Drink emoji (e.g., Lemon emoji 馃崑, for an ice-cold lemonade) in reference to cold drinks鈥攐ften of the adult variety.
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 馃嚠馃嚬馃泙馃馃殻馃徑鈥嶁檪锔忦煄叼煏笍馃馃崑馃
— 馃寧馃憫 Lazy Dictator 馃憫馃實 (@LazyDictator)
The shape of the Ice Cube听emoji 馃听has also lent the pictogram to various representation of cube-like shapes or concepts.
. absolutely MELTS the two CT's rushing him on an Eco 馃
— ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS)
Ice is cold, and various terms for cold are used to mean “excellent, good, laidback” (e.g., chill). Expect to find the Ice Cube听emoji 馃听used for these and other ice-related expressions, such as an icy stare听or a conversational icebreaker.
LOL the workplace
hella chill 馃
We cool out there 馃悙
Nutsku knows the g.o.a.t. of— 馃攣 饾椄饾椂饾椈饾棽饾榾饾椂饾榾 鈽� (@globalmarduk)
Of course, ice is actually cold, so the Ice Cube听emoji 馃听sees literal uses for cold temperatures or weather events.
Wind shoves ice ashore along northern Lake Michigan! 馃
— iceScreen (@icescreens)
Note
This is not meant to be a formal definition of 馃 Ice Cube emoji like most terms we define on Dictionary.com, but is rather an informal word summary that hopefully touches upon the key aspects of the meaning and usage of 馃 Ice Cube emoji that will help our users expand their word mastery.