ice

🧊

ice

Represents literal ice, but also coolness β€” both temperature and attitude. It can mean chilling out, staying calm, or being effortlessly β€œcool.”

  • Your friend is overreacting to a small mistake.

    Chill, it’s not that deep 🧊

Subgroups
Unicode
U+1F9CA
Variant status
Fully-qualified
Emoji version
E12.0
General

Used in slang to show something or someone is icy (stylish, unbothered, or emotionally cool). In online talk, it can also symbolize luxury or diamonds (β€œice” πŸ’Ž).

Cross-cultural

In Japanese chats, 🧊 is usually read literally β€” as in adding ice to drinks or describing something cold. Sometimes it appears in summer posts or かき氷 (shaved ice) captions.

Cross-cultural

In Chinese chats, 🧊 can mean β€œε†·ι™ (stay calm)” or β€œι…· (cool style).” It also pops up in memes as β€œε†·ζΌ /ι«˜ε†·β€ β€” meaning emotionally distant in a chic way.

Heads-up

When used in relationship chats, 🧊 might imply β€œε†·ζ·‘ (cold or distant),” so make sure the context matches your intention.

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