An upright broom with straw bristles, the emoji represents sweeping up a mess, used for cleaning day and tidying up generally. It's a Halloween and witch-aesthetic staple too, thanks to the broom's other job as a flying vehicle in folklore.
What 🧹 means
A brown broom, with a handle and a band around the blonde bristles of the same color. The 🧹 Broom emoji represents the sweeping or 'brooming' stick used in many households. It signifies cleaning, dusting, and the metaphorical interpretations of sweeping.
How and when to use it
- 🧹 can be one among the many suitable emojis for positivity and the other good vibes. For instance, "Just dust away that negativity 🧹" or "Push away toxic people the same way you'd push away dirt 🧹".
- Since 🧹 also looks like a besom or a witch's broom, this emoji can be used in spooky contexts like horror and Halloween.
- "Sweeping someone off their feet" is commonly a positive connotation; in the absence of pretense - and that's where the 🧹 would jump in. For example, "He swept her off her feet and landed her in misery 🧹".
- While using the literal or metaphorical meaning of 'cleaning' or 'cleansing', then too, you may use 🧹. Like, "Time to clean my contacts! 🧹".
- Sweeping could also suggest a sense of completion or up-gradation/change - "The entire casserole was swept clean! 🧹" or "All office regulations are now a clean sweep! 🧹"
Other Names
- 🧹 Broomstick
- 🧹 Brooming
- 🧹 Cleaning
- 🧹 Cleaner
- 🧹 Rake
- 🧹 Brush
- 🧹 Sweep
- 🧹 Sweeper
- 🧹 Carpet Sweeper
- 🧹 Mop
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › household
- Codepoints
U+1F9F9- Emoji version
- Emoji 11.0
- Shortcodes
:broom:- Keywords
- broom, cleaning, sweeping, witch
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 — 🧹 Broom or 🤰 Pregnant Woman?
Runs with a crowd
🧹 keeps company in skull emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.