A trash can, sometimes drawn with a crumpled ball of paper already tossed inside, standing for deleting, discarding, or throwing something out. It covers clearing out digital clutter, an email, a bad draft, an old photo, just as often as an actual bin, and doubles as a blunt way to say an idea doesn't deserve a second look.
What 🗑️ means
A metal cylindrical object with a wide, open rim. The 🗑️ Wastebasket emoji represents a dustbin, the ones either used in an office, at home, pretty much anywhere. It signifies trash, waste, elimination, and unnecessity too.
How and when to use it
- If you're indicating that something or someone is trash in any context, feel free to use 🗑️. For example, "Whatever he said was absolute trash🗑️" or "You've got to throw unnecessities into the bin; things, memories, people 🗑️".
- You could also metaphorically use the aspect of 'trash' accompanied by 🗑️. Like, "If you don't take the trash out, it would consume space, not only physically, but mentally too 🗑️".
- Apart from just a dustbin/trash bin, 🗑️ could also illustrate the basket in basketball - which means this emoji can even signify a 'goal' in such cases. For instance, "Enough of trying! You're good enough! Now dunk that hard work into over that rim of success 🗑️".
- 🗑️ can also refer to 'garbage'; garbage mouth, garbage person, piece of garbage, etc (it's versatile that way).
- Use 🗑️ while referring to something that doesn't serve a purpose too - "If it doesn't serve you, you know the way to the 🗑️".
Other Names
- 🗑️ Trash Bin
- 🗑️ Dustbin
- 🗑️ Trash
- 🗑️ Waste
- 🗑️ Garbage Bin
- 🗑️ Basket (in Basketball)
- 🗑️ Garbage Can
- 🗑️ Wastepaper Basket
- 🗑️ Rubbish Bin
- 🗑️ Rubbish
- 🗑️ Trash Can
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › office
- Codepoints
U+1F5D1 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:wastebasket:GitHub- Keywords
- can, garbage, trash, waste, wastebasket
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 — 🗑️ Wastebasket or 🫱 Rightwards Hand?