sponge Emoji
🧽 · U+1F9FD · Emoji 11.0
What does the sponge emoji mean?
When cleaning up spills or messes, or even just discussing household chores, people reach for the 🧽 emoji, which directly represents a sponge, a porous, absorbent object used for wiping and cleaning surfaces. Figuratively, it can also symbolize someone or something that absorbs or soaks up information, emotions, or attention. In slang, it is occasionally used to refer to someone who is seen as lazy or sponging off others, though this usage is less common. The 🧽 emoji's meaning is generally straightforward, referencing the physical object or its metaphorical extensions.
sponge emoji examples
- Just used the last of the dish soap, can you pick some up and a new 🧽 on your way home?
- I'm such a 🧽 today, been binge-watching shows all morning
How to copy the sponge emoji
To use the sponge emoji, tap the Copy button above, then paste it (long-press then Paste on mobile, or Ctrl+V / Cmd+V on desktop) anywhere you can type: messages, captions, usernames, bios and documents. It copies the real Unicode character (U+1F9FD), so it works on every app and platform, no download needed.
Also known as
sponge emoji on different platforms
How the sponge emoji looks on your device and in the openly licensed sets that include it (Twitter / X (Twemoji), Google Noto Color Emoji, OpenMoji). See image credits.
sponge Emoji Details
| Emoji | 🧽 |
| Name | sponge |
| Category | Objects |
| Codepoints | U+1F9FD |
| Shortcode | :sponge: |
| Sources | Unicode emoji list · codepoints.net |
| Emoji version | 11.0 (2018) |
sponge Emoji FAQ
It is U+1F9FD, added in Emoji 11.0 (2018). On GitHub, Slack and Discord you can type it as :sponge:.
People also search for the sponge emoji as absorbing, cleaning, porous, soak.