🪠

Plunger Emoji 🪠

A red rubber suction cup on a wooden handle, Unicode's plainly literal plunger and not exactly a glamorous addition to the emoji keyboard. It's mostly typed for a real plumbing emergency, a clogged toilet or a slow drain, and doubles as a self-deprecating punchline for whoever has to deal with it.

What 🪠 means

A left-facing plunger with a wooden stick and a big, round, and red suction cup on the lower end. The color of this suction end would differ on different platforms.

The 🪠 Plunger emoji represents plumbing. It signifies unclogging a blocked sink, pipe, bathroom on the literal side, and unblocking or decluttering one's physical space and mind on the metaphorical side.

How and when to use it

Doesn't your bestie remember what you're asking for/about? Is she/he complaining that they forgot important details? Send 🪠 in reply as a way of saying "Unclog your filthy brain and tell me what exactly happened 🪠".
You can use 🪠 in the context of advising someone about good mental health (in a playful way, of course. This use case does not imply anything harmful or belittling). For example, "Declutter your mind once in a while 🪠 Stay away from routine and do what truly makes you happy".
If you're uploading a picture or video of yourself, the caption for which goes along the lines of unclogging, you can use 🪠 - "Unclog your mind, unclog your room. Arrange your room in the way you want your mind to be 🪠". And just like that you also have a motivational use case for 🪠!.
🪠 can also be used in the frameworks of 'unplugging', 'unblocking', and 'freeing up space', in any format; picture caption, text message, etc.

Other Names

🪠 Plumbing Device
🪠 Unplugging
🪠 Unclogging
🪠 Unblocking
🪠 Free Up
🪠 Decluttering
🪠 Plunging

The lowdown

Category: Objects › household
Codepoints: U+1FAA0
Emoji version: Emoji 13.0
Shortcodes: :plunger:
Keywords: cup, force, plumber, plunger, poop, suction, toilet

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.