Sponge
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- Shortcode
:sponge:- Unicode
U+1F9FD- HTML
🧽- CSS
\1F9FD- JavaScript
"\u{1F9FD}"- URL
%F0%9F%A7%BD
What 🧽 means
A porous yellow sponge. It means cleaning, scrubbing dishes, and soaking things up.
Chore talk uses it plainly, often with 🧼 and 🍽️. Figuratively it describes someone who absorbs knowledge fast, like a kid learning new words. Fans also use it for SpongeBob references.
Facts
Sponge 🧽 is an emoji in the objects category, under household. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :sponge:. People also look for it with words like “absorbing”, “cleaning”, “porous”, or “soak”.
Timeline
- 2018Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 11.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2018
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2018
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.