Toilet Emoji

Objects

A porcelain toilet, typically depicted from a side angle with the lid up and a flush handle visible on the side. It represents the standard plumbing fixture found in bathrooms worldwide.

Usage Context

Used to signal a need to use the restroom, complain about bad situations, or bluntly refer to bodily functions. It is frequently sent as a humorous shorthand when someone is unavailable because they are busy in the bathroom. It is often grouped with the 🚿 or 🧼 to denote general hygiene routines.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, the toilet icon was heavily influenced by early mobile phone pictographs in Japan. These icons were designed to help users quickly identify the location of public facilities in transit hubs and urban areas, bridging the gap before GPS-based mapping apps became the norm.

Details

Glyph

🚽

Unicode

U+1F6BD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f6bd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDEBD;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Objects

Subcategory household

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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