Bucket Emoji

Objects

A sturdy, open-topped container with a curved swinging handle. The design typically shows a metallic or plastic pail, often depicted with a small amount of water pooled inside to clearly signal its purpose.

Usage Context

Frequently used to represent cleaning, household chores, or gardening. It also appears in online gaming and sandbox communication to signify building, digging, or gathering resources. It is often paired with 💧 to show filling or emptying, or 🏖️ to denote beach activities.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2020 as part of Emoji 13.0, the bucket was a highly requested addition to fill a gap in household and construction-related tools. Its design draws from the standard industrial pail found in homes and worksites worldwide.

Details

Glyph

🪣

Unicode

U+1FAA3

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faa3:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEA3;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Objects

Subcategory household

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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