🧽 Sponge Emoji
🧽 Copy & Paste
| 🧽 | Noto Color Emoji 17.0 |
🧽 Related Emojis
The 🧽 emoji is often associated with the following emojis:
🧽 Meaning and Usage
The sponge emoji 🧽 depicts a yellow, porous household item primarily used for cleaning, bathing, or washing surfaces. Its textured design highlights qualities like absorbing liquids, helping to soak up spills, and scrubbing away dirt effectively.
People often use it literally in conversations about household chores, spring cleaning, or personal hygiene routines. It also serves metaphorically to represent absorbing knowledge quickly, like a mind soaking up new information during learning or studying.
People often use it literally in conversations about household chores, spring cleaning, or personal hygiene routines. It also serves metaphorically to represent absorbing knowledge quickly, like a mind soaking up new information during learning or studying.
Emoji name: sponge
Tags: absorbing | cleaning | porous | soak
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🧽 Chat Examples
- I spent the afternoon cleaning the kitchen with a new sponge. 🧽 🧺
- My friend always grabs a sponge to soak up any messes right away. 🧽 💦
- He says his brain acts like a porous sponge during lectures. 🧽 📚
- She loves absorbing tips from cooking videos every weekend. 🧽 👩🍳
- My brother is cleaning the car and soaking the seats thoroughly. 🧽 🚗
🧽 Images
Check out how the emoji appears on different devices and platforms:
🧽 Emoji Support and Compatibility
Android 9.0
Microsoft
Windows 10
(October 2018 Update)
🧽 Image History
Android 4.3 Jelly Bean: ❌ Android 4.4 KitKat: ❌ Android 5.1 Lollipop: ❌ Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow: ❌ Android 7.1.1 Nougat: ❌ Android 8.0 Oreo: ❌ Android 10.0: ✅ Android 11.0: ✅ Android 12L: ✅ | MicrosoftMozillaFxEmojis 1.7.9: ❌ OpenMojiTwitter / X |
🧽 Word Associations with the "Sponge" Emoji
The 🧽 is often associated with: spill cleanup, soft scrubber, household necessity, kitchen tool, cleaning tool, durable cleaner, foam cleaner, washing aid and absorbent material.
🧽 Sponge Emoji In Most Popular Languages
Discover the name of this emoji in various languages:
| Language | Emoji Name |
|---|---|
| Arabic | اسفنجة |
| Chinese | 海绵 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 海綿 |
| French | éponge |
| German | Schwamm |
| Hindi | स्पंज |
| Italian | spugna |
| Japanese | スポンジ |
| Korean | 스펀지 |
| Portuguese | esponja |
| Spanish | esponja |
| Turkish | sünger |
| Source: Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) v48 | |
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Complete List of 🧽 Translations
| Language | Emoji Name |
|---|---|
| A | |
| Afrikaans | spons |
| Albanian | sfungjer |
| Amharic | ስፖንጅ |
| Arabic | اسفنجة |
| Armenian | սպունգ |
| Assamese | স্পঞ্জ |
| Azerbaijani | süngər |
| B | |
| Bangla | স্পঞ্জ |
| Basque | belaki |
| Belarusian | мачалка |
| Bosnian | spužva |
| Bulgarian | гъба за баня |
| Burmese | ရေမြှုပ် |
| C | |
| Cantonese (Simplified) | 海绵 |
| Catalan | esponja |
| Cherokee | ᏓᏬᎵ ᎢᏳᏍᏗ |
| Chinese | 海绵 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 海綿 |
| Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR China) | 海綿 |
| Croatian | spužva |
| Czech | mycí houba |
| D | |
| Danish | vaskesvamp |
| Dutch | spons |
| E | |
| English | sponge |
| Estonian | pesukäsn |
| F | |
| Faroese | svampur |
| Filipino | espongha |
| Finnish | pesusieni |
| French | éponge |
| G | |
| Galician | esponxa |
| Georgian | სარეცხი ღრუბელი |
| German | Schwamm |
| Greek | σφουγγάρι |
| Gujarati | સ્પંજ |
| H | |
| Hausa | soso |
| Hebrew | ספוג |
| Hindi | स्पंज |
| Hungarian | szivacs |
| I | |
| Icelandic | svampur |
| Igbo | sapo |
| Indonesian | spons |
| Irish | spúinse |
| Italian | spugna |
| J | |
| Japanese | スポンジ |
| Javanese | sepon |
| K | |
| Kannada | ಸ್ಪಾಂಜ್ |
| Kazakh | губка |
| Khmer | អេប៉ុង |
| Konkani | स्पाँज |
| Korean | 스펀지 |
| Kyrgyz | губка |
| L | |
| Lao | ຟອງນ້ຳ |
| Latvian | sūklis |
| Lithuanian | kempinė |
| M | |
| Macedonian | сунѓер |
| Malay | span |
| Malayalam | സ്പോഞ്ച് |
| Marathi | स्पंज |
| Mongolian | хөвсгөр ус шингээгч резин |
| N | |
| Nepali | स्पोन्ज |
| Nigerian Pidgin | Spọnj |
| Norwegian Bokmål | svamp |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | svamp |
| O | |
| Odia | ସ୍ପଞ୍ଜ |
| P | |
| Pashto / Pushto | اسفنج |
| Persian | لیف حمام |
| Polish | gąbka |
| Portuguese | esponja |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | esponja |
| Punjabi | ਸਪੰਜ |
| Q | |
| Quechua | sponge |
| R | |
| Romanian | burete |
| Russian | губка |
| S | |
| Scottish Gaelic | spong |
| Serbian (Cyrillic) | сунђер |
| Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia & Herzegovina) | сунђер |
| Serbian (Latin) | sunđer |
| Serbian (Latin, Bosnia & Herzegovina) | sunđer |
| Sindhi | جذب ڪار |
| Sinhala | ස්පොන්ජ් |
| Slovak | špongia |
| Slovenian | spužva |
| Somali | isboonji |
| Spanish | esponja |
| Spanish (Latin American Spanish) | esponja |
| Spanish (Mexican Spanish) | esponja |
| Spanish (United States) | esponja |
| Swahili | sifongo |
| Swedish | tvättsvamp |
| T | |
| Tamil | ஸ்பான்ஞ் |
| Telugu | స్పాంజ్ |
| Thai | ฟองน้ำ |
| Tongan | oma |
| Turkish | sünger |
| Turkmen | moçalka |
| U | |
| Ukrainian | губка |
| Urdu | اسفنج |
| Uzbek | yuvgich |
| V | |
| Vietnamese | bọt biển |
| W | |
| Welsh | sbwng |
| X | |
| Y | |
| Yoruba | kàyìnkàyìn |
| Z | |
| Zulu | isipontshi |
| Source: Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) v48 | |
🧽 Emoji Codes for Developers
| Shortcode (Discord) | :sponge: | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :sponge: | |
| Shortcode (Slack) | :sponge: | |
| HTML Dec | 🧽 | |
| HTML Hex | 🧽 | |
| CSS | \01F9FD | |
| C, C++ & Python | \U0001f9fd | |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83E\uDDFD | |
| Perl | \x{1F9FD} | |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F9FD} | |
| Punycode | xn--kw9h | |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%A7%BD |
🧽 Unicode Data
| Unicode Code Point(s) |
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| Unicode Version | Unicode 11.0 |
| Emoji Version | Emoji 11.0 |
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