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Wastebasket

Wastebasket Emoji

Objects

An open, grey wire-mesh or plastic bin designed to hold discarded paper and refuse. It is depicted as a standard office receptacle often found under a desk.

Usage Context

Widely used to represent deleting digital files, clearing out unwanted data, or signaling that something is junk or garbage. It serves as the visual shorthand for the 'trash' folder on desktop operating systems and is frequently used alongside the ❌ or 🚫 to indicate something should be thrown away.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial wave of office-themed icons. Its design draws directly from the graphical user interface icons popularized by early desktop computers in the 1980s, which used the wastebasket as a metaphor for permanent file deletion.

Details

Glyph
🗑
Unicode
U+1F5D1
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f5d1:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Google
Category Objects
Subcategory office
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
cangarbagetrashwastewastebasketobjectsofficedeleterecyclejunkfile removalbin

Google Noto License

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

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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