Why no emoji named coffee โ (Repurposed Unicode Characters)
Why no emoji named coffee?
๐บ ๐ท ๐ธ ๐ถ ๐ฅ ๐ต ๐ซ ๐ง ๐ง ๐ฅ ๐ฅค ๐ง
โ (U+2615: HOT BEVERAGE)
there are many emoji for drinks but none is named coffee, why?
Because the character โ (U+2615: HOT BEVERAGE) has been in unicode since 2003, and was by convention used for coffee. There was no emoji yet. Emoji was added 7 years later.
when unicode had a lot food and drink emojis, they did not add coffee, because the HOT BEVERAGE โ is already known as coffee by convention.
Emoji was added in 2010. Food emoji begins to be added starting in 2015.
so we have the inconsistent situation, where you have many named drinks, but not coffee.
Why no emoji named red heart
there a lot colored hearts, but no emoji named โred heartโ. Why?
๐งก ๐ฉท ๐ ๐ ๐ฉต ๐ ๐ ๐ค ๐ฉถ ๐ค ๐ค
- โค (U+2764: HEAVY BLACK HEART) rendered as emoji.
- โฅ (U+2665: BLACK HEART SUIT) rendered as emoji.
- โก (U+2661: WHITE HEART SUIT) rendered as emoji.
in the beginning, we have heart character from playing cards:
- โฅ (U+2665: BLACK HEART SUIT) rendered as emoji.
- โก (U+2661: WHITE HEART SUIT) rendered as emoji.
and we have generic heart symbols:
- โค (U+2764: HEAVY BLACK HEART) rendered as emoji.
the black heart, are often rendered red.
the many colored heart emoji came about 20 years later. by then, the โค (U+2764: HEAVY BLACK HEART) and โฅ (U+2665: BLACK HEART SUIT) are already rendered as red hearts, thus, no explicit red heart emoji was created.
