A mound of shaved ice (snow cone) served in a dessert bowl or a cone with a short spoon. Popular in many countries as a summertime dessert or street food, including Hawaiian shave ice, kakigori in Japan, and halo-halo in the Philippines.

Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft depict pink-and-white shaved ice, while WhatsApp, JoyPixels, and Huawei feature multi-colored syrups. Facebook and Twitter's designs are shades of pink and do not include a spoon.

Previous designs from both Google and Samsung were topped with a cherry, with this same Samsung’s design also including cherry-red syrup. Two previous Facebook designs were multi-colored, and another one was blue.

This emoji predates the inclusion of emojis within Unicode. It was first added to early Japanese emoji keyboards by SoftBank in 2000.

Shaved Ice was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.