A swirl of soft-serve piled onto a waffle cone, the kind that comes out of a machine rather than scooped from a tub. Actual soft-serve runs use it most literally, and looser talk stretches it to anything soft, gentle, or 'soft' in the emotional sense: a soft-hearted comment, a soft launch, a soft kind of day.
What 🍦 means
A light brown wafer with a couple of wafer-prints on it, holding a soft swirl of what seems like vanilla ice cream. On some platforms the color of the ice cream is different.
The 🍦 Soft Ice Cream emoji refers to a 'soft serve'; a lighter and less heavy ice cream. It signifies a summery vibe, sweet treats, a soft-hearted person, and all things vanilla (depends on the flavor on your platform).
How and when to use it
- Beginning with a softie, 🍦 can be used to refer to someone who's soft-hearted, innocent, and maybe even physically and/or emotionally weak. This emoji can also be used as a way of saying, "Oh, cut the crap. Buck up and stop being such a softie 🍦".
- Softy ice creams are pretty much the language of the summers. So, if you're sharing a summer-kissed picture or even a repost about something exciting and fun about the season, you can use 🍦 in all those contexts.
- If the flavor of 🍦 in the platform you're using is vanilla, then you can use this emoji to refer to or comment on boring and mundane stuff - "Ugh, how fkn boring can you get? 🍦".
- 🍦 can also be used to send some virtual 'feel-better' comfort. For instance, if you're bestie is texting you about how she wishes to die because its her period, send her 🍦 and say, "Hang in there, man. Here, have a softy 🍦". (she may snap back at you, but worth the try).
Other Names
- 🍦 Softy
- 🍦 Soft Serve
- 🍦 Soft Serve Ice Cream
- 🍦 Vanilla Ice Cream
- 🍦 Vanilla Softy
- 🍦 Softy Ice Cream
- 🍦 Cone Ice Cream
- 🍦 Ice Cream Swirl
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-sweet
- Codepoints
U+1F366- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:icecream:- Keywords
- cream, dessert, food, ice, icecream, restaurant, serve, soft, sweet
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
Pairs well with
Tap any combo to copy the whole thing.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🍦 Soft Ice Cream or 🧑🦽 Person in Manual Wheelchair?
Runs with a crowd
🍦 keeps company in food emojis and summer emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.