Sponge emoji 🧽
Emoji 11.0 (2018) · U+1F9FD
What 🧽 means
Sponge 🧽 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: absorbing, cleaning, porous, soak.
Those words also drive emoji search: try absorbing or cleaning on your phone to find 🧽.
On the emoji keyboard, 🧽 sits with the household (25 emoji) inside objects, which has 268 emoji, for example 🧯 🛒 🚪 🛗.
Will 🧽 show on my friend's phone?
🧽 dates from Emoji 11.0 (2018). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🧽
To find 🧽 quickly, type sponge into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type sponge.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type sponge in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type sponge.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🧽 as one code point, U+1F9FD: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9FD | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧽 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧽 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9FD"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9FD} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%BD | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 BD |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧽 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the sponge emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧽 "sponge" and links it with absorbing, cleaning, porous, soak. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the household subgroup of objects.
When was the sponge emoji added?
In Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. Phones updated since about 2019 show it.
How do I type the sponge emoji?
To find 🧽 quickly, type sponge into the emoji search.