Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
💩Pile of Poo Emoji
It usually means something is really bad or unpleasant. People use it to express their strong dislike or frustration about something.
Also searched as turd emoji.
The 💩 emoji is a pile of poo.
- Unicode
- U+1F4A9
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :hankey:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 💩 Pile of Poo emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 14 of them.
People also look for it as stink emoji, turd emoji, poop emoji, poo emoji, fml emoji.
02 — Platforms
Pile of Poo emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the pile of poo has been drawn in 4 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Pile of Poo emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :hankey:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the pile of poo, code point U+1F4A9.
04 — How to type
How to type the 💩 Pile of Poo emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F4A9 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Pile of Poo emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Pile of Poo emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around pile of poo for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 💩, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 💩 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the pile of poo and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 💩 means in other countries
Reads as silly rather than gross almost everywhere — a cartoon gag, not a literal image of the thing itself.
Shorthand for “that’s a mess” or just plain toilet-humor comedy between friends.
Undercuts the tone of anything that’s meant to sound professional or serious.
Before you send it: Keep it for casual banter between friends; it reads as juvenile anywhere near work topics.
10 — Apps
What 💩 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
12 — History
Where the 💩 Pile of Poo emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F4A9 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
💩 existed there as
KDDI au E4F5, SoftBank E05A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Pile of Poo was approved as U+1F4A9 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 💩 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ