Water closet
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- Shortcode
:wc:- Shortcode
:water_closet:- Unicode
U+1F6BE- HTML
🚾- CSS
\1F6BE- JavaScript
"\u{1F6BE}"- URL
%F0%9F%9A%BE
What ๐พ means
The letters WC, short for water closet. It means a toilet or restroom.
Common in Europe and Asia, where WC signs are everywhere. People use it for directions, bathroom breaks and travel tips. In North America, ๐ป is more familiar, and "WC" can puzzle some readers.
Facts
Water closet ๐พ is an emoji in the symbols category, under transport sign. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :wc: or :water_closet:. People also look for it with words like โWCโ, โbathroomโ, โclosetโ, or โlavatoryโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.