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🗑️Wastebasket Emoji
The wastebasket emoji 🗑️ carries the codepoint U+1F5D1 U+FE0F and has been in the standard since Unicode 7.0 (2014). It belongs to Objects → Office Supplies.
What 🗑️ wastebasket means
Work admin rendered in emoji: folders, calendars, clipboards and stationery. 📈 and 📉 escaped the office long ago and now caption anything trending up or down, from share prices to a person's mood across a week. 📌 and 📍 mean pinned and located, 📅 sets a date, and 🗑️ is how people discard an idea, a take or an ex without spelling it out.
Unicode tags this one can, garbage and trash and files it under Objects → Office Supplies.
Copy variants
wastebasket carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🗑️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 🗑U+1F5D1wastebasket
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F5D1 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🗑️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🗑️ | |
| CSS | \1F5D1\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F5D1}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F5D1\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDDD1\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f5d1}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F5D1}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F5D1}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%97%91%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 97 91 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DDD1 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Xke+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128465 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
- can
- garbage
- trash
- waste
Appears in these collections
How to type 🗑️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “wastebasket”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “can”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f5d1and 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 🗑️ wastebasket emoji mean?+
🗑️ is the wastebasket emoji, tagged can, garbage and trash. Work admin rendered in emoji: folders, calendars, clipboards and stationery. 📈 and 📉 escaped the office long ago and now caption anything trending up or down, from share prices to a person's mood across a week. 📌 and 📍 mean pinned and located, 📅 sets a date, and 🗑️ is how people discard an idea, a take or an ex without spelling it out.
What is the Unicode code for 🗑️?+
wastebasket is U+1F5D1 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🗑️, in CSS \1F5D1\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F5D1}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🗑️ emoji added?+
wastebasket got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). 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 Office Supplies in Objects.
Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🗑️ wastebasket.