🪥
A toothbrush with bristles at one end, the emoji represents the most basic step of a hygiene routine. It's used for morning and night routines, dental care reminders, and self-care content that starts with the smallest possible habit.
What 🪥 means
A slanting toothbrush, leaning towards the right, with a blue body and white bristles on one end. The 🪥 Toothbrush emoji signifies oral hygiene, morning (and night) routine, cleanliness, and self-care.
How and when to use it
- While gassing someone up to not bother about what people tell them or do to them, you can use 🪥. For example, "Listen up, young man. You're headstrong and wise. Brush off that negativity! 🪥".
- In the same context, you can use 🪥 even in your picture captions - like, "I've learned to paint lives and brush off many too 🪥".
- If you and your gang are heading out for a vacation or someone close to you is; like a partner, a best friend, or even a parent, you can use 🪥 while crosschecking toiletries.
- If you're posting or reposting anything related to oral/dental hygiene, ensure to get this bad boy 🪥 into the caption.
- You can also use 🪥 as a way of inferring "Please clean your mouth before you say stuff like that 🪥" - this works great in the comment section and even in a conversation when you're looking for a comeback.
Other Names
- 🪥 Brush
- 🪥 Dental Brush
- 🪥 Oral Brush
- 🪥 Oral Hygiene
- 🪥 Dental Hygiene
- 🪥 Oral Hygiene Instrument
- 🪥 Instrument of Dental Hygiene
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › household
- Codepoints
U+1FAA5- Emoji version
- Emoji 13.0
- Shortcodes
:toothbrush:- Keywords
- bathroom, brush, clean, dental, hygiene, teeth, toiletry, toothbrush
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 — 🪥 Toothbrush or 🍥 Fish Cake with Swirl?