Boba Emoji Copy and Paste

Press Copy for the bubble tea emoji, or pick text pearls, a flavor combo or the drink's Chinese name.

Boba Emoji Copy and Paste

πŸ§‹Bubble teaU+1F9CBReady to copy

39 boba items. Tap one to copy it.

Bubble tea and the drink emoji beside it 8

Tea and pearl in Han characters 4

The drink's names 3

Pearls in plain text 6

Flavors, as combos 10

Boba combos 8

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How it works

Unicode calls the boba emoji Bubble tea, and CLDR files it under boba, pearl and milk. Boba emoji copy and paste here adds the drink emoji beside it, pearls in plain text, ten flavors and the drink's names.

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Bubble tea is the only emoji filed under boba

Bubble tea came in with Emoji 13.0, between Cup with straw and Beverage box in Unicode's list of drinks. No emoji has boba in its name, and CLDR files this one alone under the word. A device whose emoji are older than 13.0 may show an empty box.

Pearls and flavors

● ● ● ● ● is five black circles: pearls with no cup. ●○●○●○ takes dark and light in turn. A flavor combo is a fruit before the cup: Mango boba, Strawberry boba, Peach boba.

  • 珍珠ε₯ΆθŒΆ reads zhΔ“nzhΕ« nǎichΓ‘, the Chinese name Wikipedia gives first: pearl milk tea.
  • One for the table copies four cups in a row.

Questions and answers

Is there a boba emoji?

Yes. Unicode names it Bubble tea, U+1F9CB, and CLDR's search words for it are boba, bubble, food, milk, pearl and tea. It is the first tile on this page.

Why does the boba emoji show as a box?

Bubble tea is from Emoji 13.0. A device or app whose emoji font is older has no picture for it and may show an empty box. The text pearls here are plain circles, not emoji.

What is boba called in Chinese?

Wikipedia gives 珍珠ε₯ΆθŒΆ, zhΔ“nzhΕ« nǎichΓ‘: pearl milk tea. In English it lists bubble tea, pearl milk tea, bubble milk tea, tapioca milk tea, boba tea and boba, and calls the name boba common in the United States.

What is in bubble tea?

By Wikipedia it is a tea-based drink that most often holds chewy tapioca balls, milk and flavoring, and it began in Taiwan in the 1980s.

All 39 boba items

Bubble tea and the drink emoji beside it 8

  • Beverage box U+1F9C3. The emoji after it. Filed under juice and straw. Emoji 12.0.
  • Bubble tea U+1F9CB. Unicode's name for boba. CLDR's six search words: boba, bubble, food, milk, pearl and tea. The only emoji filed under boba. Emoji 13.0.
  • Cup with straw U+1F964. The emoji before Bubble tea in Unicode's list of drinks. Emoji 5.0.
  • Glass of milk U+1F95B. Three search words: drink, glass and milk. Emoji 3.0.
  • Hot beverage U+2615. Filed under tea, chai and coffee. Emoji 0.6.
  • Ice U+1F9CA. Filed under cold and cube. Emoji 12.0.
  • Teacup without handle U+1F375. One of the four emoji CLDR files under tea. Emoji 0.6.
  • Teapot U+1FAD6. Filed under tea and brew. Emoji 13.0.

Tea and pearl in Han characters 4

  • Bubbles, the Han character U+6CE1. Unihan defines it as bubbles, suds; blister; soak. Mandarin reading pΓ o.
  • Pearl, the Han character U+73E0. Unihan defines it as precious stone, gem, jewel, pearl. Mandarin reading zhΕ«.
  • Precious, the Han character U+73CD. Unihan defines it as precious, valuable, rare. With the character for pearl it opens the drink's Chinese name. Mandarin reading zhΔ“n.
  • Tea, the Han character U+8336. Unihan defines it in one word: tea. Mandarin reading chΓ‘.
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The drink's names 3

  • 珍珠ε₯ΆθŒΆ ZhΔ“nzhΕ« nǎichΓ‘, the Chinese name Wikipedia gives first: pearl milk tea
  • boba tea On Wikipedia's list of the drink's English names, just before the short form boba
  • pearl milk tea The first English name on Wikipedia's list after bubble tea

Pearls in plain text 6

  • (●●●) (●●●) (●●●) Three cups seen from above
  • /|●●●●| A straw and a cup of pearls
  • \●●●●●/ Pearls in the bottom of a cup
  • ∘ Β° ∘ ● ∘ Β° ∘ Bubbles around one pearl
  • ● ● ● ● ● Five pearls
  • ●○●○●○ Dark and light pearls in turn

Flavors, as combos 10

  • Blueberry boba Blueberries, then bubble tea.
  • Chocolate boba Chocolate bar, then bubble tea.
  • Coconut boba Coconut, then bubble tea.
  • Honey boba Honey pot, then bubble tea.
  • Lemon boba Lemon, then bubble tea.
  • Mango boba Mango, then bubble tea.
  • Melon boba Melon, then bubble tea.
  • Peach boba Peach, then bubble tea.
  • Strawberry banana boba Strawberry, then banana, then bubble tea. Two fruits before the cup.
  • Strawberry boba Strawberry, then bubble tea.

Boba combos 8

  • After school boba Backpack, then bubble tea.
  • Boba and a book Open book, then bubble tea.
  • Boba run Bubble tea, then dashing away.
  • Extra pearls Bubble tea, then plus.
  • Iced boba Ice, then bubble tea.
  • My treat Bubble tea, then wrapped gift.
  • One for the table Bubble tea, then bubble tea, then bubble tea, then bubble tea. Four cups in a row.
  • Study fuel Books, then bubble tea.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-01 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Bubble tea is U+1F9CB, Emoji 13.0, in the subgroup drink between Cup with straw and Beverage box; CLDR lists boba, bubble, food, milk, pearl and tea for it and files no other emoji under boba; no entry has boba in its name. Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt). Han definitions and readings are from the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). From Wikipedia, Bubble tea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_tea, CC BY-SA 4.0), restated: the English names, the Chinese name zhΔ“nzhΕ« nǎichΓ‘, that it is a tea-based drink most often holding chewy tapioca balls, milk and flavoring, that it began in Taiwan in the 1980s, and that the name boba is common in the United States and rare in Asia. The six rows of text pearls, the flavor combos and the named combos are this site's own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, and the Han definitions are Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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