Two glasses, one clink — the emoji that says "we're celebrating," not just "nice."
🥂 is the cheers emoji: two champagne flutes mid-clink, used to toast good news, congratulate someone, or propose drinks. Unlike 🎉, it implies company — the second glass is yours — which is why it reads as shared celebration rather than solo excitement. Gen Z also uses it dryly, as a mock toast to something that went badly.
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🥂 means cheers — the moment two glasses touch. In practice it does three jobs. First, congratulations: it is the standard reply to a promotion, an engagement, a graduation, an accepted offer. Second, an invitation: "drinks Friday? 🥂" turns a vague chat into a plan with an evening, adult tone. Third, closure: people use it to mark the end of something hard, a quiet toast to themselves and whoever stuck around. The two-glass design is the key detail — it always implies company, so it reads as we rather than I. Gen Z adds a fourth layer, the ironic toast: 🥂 dropped under a disaster, meaning "congratulations on this mess." Millennials use it more literally, usually attached to actual champagne. Tone is set almost entirely by what comes before it, not the glyph itself.
The default reply to good news when 'congrats' alone feels thin. One 🥂 reads warm and finished; three in a row reads genuinely excited. It also doubles as a soft plan-maker: 'we're celebrating this properly.'
Lives in soft-launch captions, birthday dumps, engagement reveals and 'chapter closed' posts. In comments it's a low-effort but sincere clap — people use it when a stitch or a glow-up deserves applause without a paragraph.
Caption shorthand for milestone posts and Story reshares of someone else's win. Two glasses implies company, so people avoid it on solo-achievement posts where it can accidentally read as 'we' when there is no we.
Used to convert a chat into a date: 'drinks thursday? 🥂'. It signals a bar or wine bar rather than coffee, so it sets a slightly more adult, evening tone. Warmer than 🍻, less loaded than 🍷.
One of the few celebratory emoji that is safe in Slack or Teams — deal closed, ship day, quarter done. Some workplaces avoid alcohol imagery entirely, so 🎉 or 👏 is the neutral swap in mixed or sober-inclusive channels.
When a girl sends 🥂 she is almost always celebrating with you, not flirting with you. It is the emoji of shared happiness — your promotion, her friend's engagement, a Friday that finally arrived — and the two-glass image does the work: it says "us," "together," "this deserves marking." Read it as warm and inclusive rather than romantic. The flirty version only appears when it is attached to a plan ("drinks Thursday? 🥂") or a soft-launch photo, where the glasses are quietly announcing that someone else was holding the second one. Sent alone after your good news, it is sincere applause with no subtext underneath it.
Clinking Glasses 🥂 and Clinking Beer Mugs 🍻 look closely related and get swapped constantly, but they land differently in a message. Here is what separates them, so you send the one you actually mean.
Champagne flutes. Milestone energy: engagements, promotions, graduations, closing a deal. Slightly formal, works in work chat, and sets an evening or wine-bar tone when attached to plans.
Beer steins. Casual and loud: pub night, the weekend starting, watching the game, congratulating a friend the unfussy way. Reads warmer and less polished — never the choice for an engagement announcement.
It’s the same character everywhere — each platform just draws it in its own style. Here are three open emoji sets side by side, plus how your own device renders it:
| Platform | How it differs |
|---|---|
| Apple | Two pale gold champagne flutes tilted toward each other with a small splash between them. The splash is what sells the clink — it is the most 'in motion' version and the reference design most people picture. |
| Flatter, brighter flutes with a wider tilt and visible bubbles. Reads slightly more cartoonish than Apple's and the gold is more yellow, which can look like beer at thumbnail size. | |
| Samsung | Taller, narrower glasses with a strong highlight down each flute and a lighter liquid tone. One of the more elegant renderings; it reads clearly as champagne rather than generic wine. |
| Microsoft | Bolder outlines and a squarer bowl, in Fluent's chunkier house style. The liquid is a deeper amber, so on Windows and in Teams it can read closer to whisky than champagne. |
| Close to Apple's — angled gold flutes with a small burst at the point of contact. Consistent across Android and iOS in-app, so the celebratory read holds no matter what phone the other person has. | |
| Twemoji's version is simplified and flat: two amber-filled glasses with minimal shading and a sparse splash. At timeline size it loses the champagne cue and can be mistaken for a generic drinks emoji. |
Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw their own proprietary versions, which we don’t redistribute — the notes above describe how they differ. Open sets shown under their licences: Twemoji (CC-BY 4.0), Noto Emoji (Apache 2.0), OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0).
The cheers emoji 🥂 is not always read the way you intend it. These three situations change what 🥂 signals, and knowing them keeps you from sending the wrong message.
Quick answers to what people ask most about the cheers emoji 🥂 — what it means in a text, who tends to send it, and how to copy it onto your own keyboard.
🥂 means 'cheers' — a toast to good news. It marks a celebration, congratulations, or a plan to drink together, and it signals warm shared happiness rather than personal excitement, since two glasses imply two people clinking them.
🥂 is champagne flutes and reads formal and milestone-sized: engagements, promotions, graduations. 🍻 is beer mugs and reads casual and loud: pub night, the weekend, watching a game. Both mean cheers, but the glassware sets the tone.
Usually genuine celebration or an invitation to celebrate together. It is friendly and warm rather than flirty by default, though paired with a plan — 'drinks friday? 🥂' — it is a clear yes to seeing you in an evening setting.
Not on its own. It reads as congratulations or a toast. It becomes flirty only through context: attached to date plans, a soft-launch photo, or paired with 😌, 🖤 or a wink. Alone after good news, it is purely celebratory.
Yes. Sent after bad news or an obvious failure it becomes a mock toast — 'congratulations on this disaster.' The sarcasm is almost always signalled by pairing it with 🙃, 💀 or a flat tone, never by the glasses alone.
No. Most senders mean the gesture of toasting, not drinking. Plenty of people who do not drink use it for milestones. That said, some sober-recovery spaces and workplaces treat alcohol imagery as unwelcome, so 🎉 is the safer swap there.
Its Unicode name is Clinking Glasses, codepoint U+1F942, approved in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. Common shortcodes are :clinking_glasses: on Slack and Discord. Most people search for it as the cheers emoji rather than by its official name.
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