A woven basket, the emoji represents carrying a bundle of things rather than any single item. It's used for laundry day, picnic plans, and Easter-basket season, flexing to whatever the basket happens to be full of in context.
What 🧺 means
A brown laundry basket, mostly woven with bamboo and fitted with a pair of erected brown handles. The basket is seen to either be covering something beneath or just a pile of laundry.
The 🧺 Basket emoji can represent either a laundry basket or a food basket/picnic basket. This emoji signifies portability, collection, efficiency, dirty/clean laundry, and maybe even 'room service'.
How and when to use it
- If you're talking about hopes and dreams, 🧺 may come in handy. Like, "That's what happens when you put all your eggs in one basket 🧺" or "Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely 🧺".
- If you're referring to something uncomfortable and stress-provoking, 🧺 could come into the picture. Here's how - "I don't want to bring up that dirty laundry 🧺" or "It's just dirty laundry now, man 🧺".
- A basket could represent a unit of measurement too. For instance, "She gave me a basket full of chocolates 🧺 I kid you not" or "Get a fruit basket 🧺.That should be enough".
- Use 🧺 while sharing sharing aesthetic pictures of woven baskets, bamboo baskets, etc.; it can be sale reposts, a personal post, anything. This applies even when the content is about laundry; quotes, memes, funny videos, or even educational reposts.
Other Names
- 🧺 Laundry Basket
- 🧺 Bamboo Basket
- 🧺 Fruit Basket
- 🧺 Clothes Basket
- 🧺 Container
- 🧺 Woven Basket
- 🧺 Hamper
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › household
- Codepoints
U+1F9FA- Emoji version
- Emoji 11.0
- Shortcodes
:basket:- Keywords
- basket, farming, laundry, picnic
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🧺 Basket or 🇬🇭 Flag: Ghana?