A yellow scrub sponge dotted with holes, the one emoji built for actual dish-and-counter scrubbing rather than a metaphor first. It still gets borrowed for someone who picks up new information fast, a mind like a sponge, or, less kindly, for someone who mooches off everyone around them.
What 🧽 means
A rectangular yellow sponge, squeezed in design at the sides and detailed with brown spots (or holes) throughout the object. The 🧽 Sponge emoji symbolizes absorption, soaking capacity and suggests cleansing, cleaning, and bathing.
How and when to use it
- If you're sharing a personal post with a caption deeply about 'absorption', or a direct message (DM) of the same, use 🧽. Like, "Be the energy you want others to absorb! 🧽" or "Don't tell me all of this happened by chance. You chose to absorb every bit of it 🧽".
- If you're texting someone about a hobby or plan that you're giving up on or typing out a post/repost caption resonating with the same, bring in 🧽 - "I've decided to throw in the sponge with photography 🧽" or "Don't give up. Throw in some confetti, but never a sponge! 🧽".
- Even while describing something or someone who lives to "live off" something or someone else, 🧽 would come in handy. For example, "He's just sponged off everyone in the group 🧽. Must be your turn".
- If you're referring to someone or something that's 'soaking' in any way, you may use 🧽. For instance, "Yuck. I'm soaking in sweat after that walk 🧽 Running in for a shower!" or "The conversation was literally soaked in negativity 🧽".
Other Names
- 🧽 Rectangular Sponge
- 🧽 Wipe
- 🧽 Cleaning Sponge
- 🧽 Absorption
- 🧽 Soaking Sponge
- 🧽 SpongeBob SquarePants
- 🧽 Yellow Sponge
- 🧽 Bathing Sponge
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › household
- Codepoints
U+1F9FD- Emoji version
- Emoji 11.0
- Shortcodes
:sponge:- Keywords
- absorbing, cleaning, porous, soak, sponge
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 — 🧽 Sponge or 🫏 Donkey?