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🧽Sponge Emoji
🧽 sponge — U+1F9FD, added in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Unicode groups it with the other 25 household items emojis under Objects.
What 🧽 sponge means
Chores, cleaning routines and moving-in posts. 🧹 and 🧼 anchor the tidying content, 🛏️ and 🛋️ mean rest, and 🚪 is how people announce leaving a conversation. Emoji 13.0 filled obvious gaps in 2020 with the mirror 🪞, window 🪟, plunger 🪠, mouse trap 🪤 and bucket 🪣. 🧻 gained a second meaning that same year during the panic buying of toilet paper.
Unicode tags this one absorbing, cleaning and porous and files it under Objects → Household Items.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9FD | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧽 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧽 | |
| CSS | \1F9FD | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9FD} | |
| Python | \U0001F9FD | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDFD | |
| Rust | \u{1f9fd} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9FD} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9FD} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%BD | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 BD | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDFD | |
| Base64 | 8J+nvQ== | |
| Decimal | 129533 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 11.0 (2018) | |
Keywords
- absorbing
- cleaning
- porous
- soak
How to type 🧽
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “sponge”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “absorbing”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9fdand 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 🧽 sponge emoji mean?+
🧽 is the sponge emoji, tagged absorbing, cleaning and porous. Chores, cleaning routines and moving-in posts. 🧹 and 🧼 anchor the tidying content, 🛏️ and 🛋️ mean rest, and 🚪 is how people announce leaving a conversation. Emoji 13.0 filled obvious gaps in 2020 with the mirror 🪞, window 🪟, plunger 🪠, mouse trap 🪤 and bucket 🪣. 🧻 gained a second meaning that same year during the panic buying of toilet paper.
What is the Unicode code for 🧽?+
sponge is U+1F9FD. In HTML that is 🧽, in CSS \1F9FD, and in JavaScript \u{1F9FD}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧽 emoji added?+
sponge got its emoji presentation in Emoji 11.0 (2018). 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 Household Items in Objects.
Added in Emoji 11.0 (2018)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧽 sponge.