🪣

Bucket Emoji 🪣

A wide-mouthed bucket with a metal handle, Unicode's generic container for anything you'd carry, mop with, or dump water from. It backs up "bucket list" and "kick the bucket" far more than it depicts an actual pail, and on a basketball court, a single made shot is just called a bucket.

What 🪣 means

An averagely tall and wide, blue bucket with an open mouth that tapers towards the bottom, held together with a semi-circular metal handle connected to both sides of the bucket.

The 🪣 Bucket emoji represents fetching water, bathroom usage, and a unit of domestic storage. However, this emoji has quite a lot of interesting metaphorical and phrasal use cases too, read on to know what those are!

How and when to use it

If you're continuing the "ice bucket challenge" in some part of the world bringing back the rage, or reposting that nostalgic phase on social media, make sure to use 🪣 in the caption.
If you're texting someone about somebody else's death; real or fictional, you can use 🪣 as a way of saying he/she kicked the bucket. For example, "Don't drool too much over this character. He kicks the bucket way early in the season 🪣 Whoops! Spoiler alert, haha"
You could use 🪣 in the framework of 'fetching' something too. For instance, "Hey, just fetch me some candy on the way back, please? 🪣".
'A bucketful' suggests the quantity of something. So, if you're implying to large quantities, you can use 🪣 - "Man. I'm full AF. Just downed a bucket full of beer 🪣".
In some strange way, you can use 🪣 to refer to a "bucket list" too.

Other Names

🪣 Pail
🪣 Scuttle
🪣 Vessel
🪣 Container
🪣 Tub
🪣 Bucketful
🪣 Pitcher
🪣 Vertical Container
🪣 Open-Top Container

The lowdown

Category: Objects › household
Codepoints: U+1FAA3
Emoji version: Emoji 13.0
Shortcodes: :bucket:
Keywords: bucket, cask, pail, vat

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.