🧽️ Sponge emoji
HTML
🧽
Unicode
U+1F9FD
What is 🧽️ called?
🧽️ is called the Sponge emoji.
It is sometimes called cleaning sponge, kitchen sponge, or absorbent sponge. The wording reflects ordinary speech, specialist use, translation, or what the symbol looks like; Unicode’s official name is sponge.
What does 🧽️ mean?
🧽 is officially named sponge. The porous yellow block commonly represents a household sponge, not necessarily the marine animal from which the name originated.
Use it for washing dishes, wiping, cleaning, absorption, or soaking something up. Context supplies the precise intention, and related choices include 🪥 Toothbrush and 🧯 Fire extinguisher.
Other meanings
It can convey washing dishes, wiping, cleaning, absorption, or soaking something up. Context determines whether a message is literal, domestic, practical, cultural, commemorative, public-facing, or figurative.
Example Usage
The practical guide mentions washing dishes 🧽
The household or public-space note marks wiping 🧽
More details
Officially named sponge. Its code point is U+1F9FD. It was introduced in Emoji 11.0.
Related emoji
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Visual description
Platform artwork depicts sponge as a compact, recognisable pictograph or symbol.
The porous yellow block commonly represents a household sponge, not necessarily the marine animal from which the name originated. Colours, proportions, orientation, text styling, and fine details vary by platform.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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