A toilet with its lid up, the emoji represents the bathroom break itself — 'gotta go' texted mid-conversation. It also gets used more figuratively, calling something garbage or flushing an idea, a relationship, or a bad plan straight down the drain.
What 🚽 means
A white commode featuring the pot with a closed lid, a rectangular flush box, and a solid stand for both.
The 🚽 Toilet emoji essentially represents the act of bodily elimination, either through a healthy morning routine or an intoxicated drunken encounter. This emoji signifies waste, relief, and even some "me" time.
How and when to use it
- Anything that's flushable is pretty much wasteful by nature. If you're referring to something that fits this beautiful description, you can use 🚽. For instance, "That attitude has a unique place! 🚽" or "Jesus. Could you get anymore vain? 🚽".
- Similarly, 🚽 may be used to indicate a 'smelly' situation, conversation, or even a person. For example, "Gosh. That conversation STINKS 🚽".
- Generally, a commode or the toilet evokes feelings and sensations of absolute disgust. Hence, 🚽 would fit perfectly into any scenario that is, indeed, disgusting. Like, "Wow. That's quite a disgusting video 🚽".
- If you're asking someone with the worst idea to 'take a seat', use 🚽 (it's playfully rude. Hence, ensure it's someone who's comfortable with your painstaking wordplay) - "You need a special seat for that thought! 🚽".
Other Names
- 🚽 Commode
- 🚽 Lavatory
- 🚽 Pot
- 🚽 Privy
- 🚽 Outhouse
- 🚽 Latrine
- 🚽 Bathroom
- 🚽 Urinal
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › household
- Codepoints
U+1F6BD- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:toilet:- Keywords
- bathroom, 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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🚽 Toilet or 🙎♂️ Man Pouting?