U+1F6BE "🚾" Water Closet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🚾
U+1F6BE "🚾" Water Closet is a pictographic symbol representing a public restroom or toilet facility, commonly found in signage across East Asia and increasingly used globally due to its inclusion in the Unicode standard. Originally designed for Japanese and Chinese contexts to indicate a water closet or washroom, the character depicts a stylized enclosure with the letters "WC" inside, making it an unambiguous visual cue for sanitary facilities. Its adoption in digital communication allows users to quickly reference a restroom without relying on language-specific text, serving both practical wayfinding needs and informal text or emoji usage in messages and social media.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F6BE |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Water Closet |
| Block | Transport and Map Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🚾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🚾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDEBE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F6BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udebe |