U+1F9FD "🧽" Sponge Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🧽
U+1F9FD "🧽" Sponge is a pictographic representation of a porous, rectangular cleaning sponge, typically rendered in a light blue or yellow hue with visible holes or texture. It was added to the Unicode Standard in 2017 as part of Emoji 5.0, falling under the Objects category and the subcategory of household items. This character is commonly used in digital communication to symbolize cleaning, washing dishes, absorbing liquids, or the act of wiping away dirt and clutter, and it can also metaphorically represent soaking up knowledge or information.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9FD |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Sponge |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| 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 0xA7 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDFD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9FD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddfd |