Objects · Emoji 0.7
🗑️Wastebasket Emoji
Basically, it means “this is trash.” People use it to show something is bad or they don’t care about it.
The 🗑️ emoji is a wastebasket.
- Unicode
- U+1F5D1 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :wastebasket:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🗑️ Wastebasket emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as trash emoji, trash can emoji.
02 — Platforms
Wastebasket emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F5D1 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your wastebasket looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Wastebasket emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :wastebasket:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the wastebasket, code point U+1F5D1.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🗑️ Wastebasket emoji
No picker to hand? The wastebasket can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Wastebasket emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 8. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
06 — Combinations
Wastebasket emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around wastebasket 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 for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🗑️ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — 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.
10 — History
Where the 🗑️ Wastebasket emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the wastebasket to 2014.
Same character every time — U+1F5D1 U+FE0F 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.
Wastebasket was approved as U+1F5D1 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🗑️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
11 — FAQ