☕ is coffee, “morning” and “spill the tea”. Copy it and the tea emoji here.
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What the coffee emoji means
☕ (hot beverage) is coffee, and by extension mornings, work, “can’t talk yet” and study sessions; with 📚 and 🌧️ it builds the cosy combos that fill the combo studio. It is also tea in the online sense: “spill the tea ☕” means share the gossip, and 🐸☕ (Kermit sipping) is “but that’s none of my business”. 🍵 is green tea, 🫖 a teapot and 🧋 bubble tea.
Both; its Unicode name is hot beverage. Most people read it as coffee unless “tea” is written.
What does “spill the tea ☕” mean?
Share the gossip. The cup is the emoji for it.
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