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💩Pile Of Poo Emoji
The pile of poo emoji 💩 carries the codepoint U+1F4A9 and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Smileys & Emotion → Costumed & Creatures.
What 💩 pile of poo means
Masks, monsters and things that are not faces at all. Used for self-deprecation (🤡 for admitting you were the fool), Halloween, and gaming. 👾 is formally named alien monster but is drawn on most platforms as an arcade sprite, and 💩 reached Unicode from the Japanese carrier sets that seeded the original emoji list.
Unicode tags this one bs, comic and doo and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Costumed & Creatures.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F4A9 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 💩 | |
| HTML decimal | 💩 | |
| CSS | \1F4A9 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4A9} | |
| Python | \U0001F4A9 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDCA9 | |
| Rust | \u{1f4a9} | |
| Swift | \u{1F4A9} | |
| PHP | \u{1F4A9} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%92%A9 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 92 A9 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DCA9 | |
| Base64 | 8J+SqQ== | |
| Decimal | 128169 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 💩
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “pile of poo”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bs”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f4a9and Enter. - HTML — paste
💩.
How 💩 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 💩Apple
- 💩Segoe
- 💩Noto
- 💩System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 💩 pile of poo emoji mean?+
💩 is the pile of poo emoji, tagged bs, comic and doo. Masks, monsters and things that are not faces at all. Used for self-deprecation (🤡 for admitting you were the fool), Halloween, and gaming. 👾 is formally named alien monster but is drawn on most platforms as an arcade sprite, and 💩 reached Unicode from the Japanese carrier sets that seeded the original emoji list.
What is the Unicode code for 💩?+
pile of poo is U+1F4A9. In HTML that is 💩, in CSS \1F4A9, and in JavaScript \u{1F4A9}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 💩 emoji added?+
pile of poo got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Costumed & Creatures in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 💩 pile of poo.