Symbols · Emoji 1.0
🚰Potable Water Emoji
Generally, the 🚰 emoji means water. People use it when they’re talking about drinking, needing a drink, or commenting on something related to water sources.
The 🚰 emoji represents potable water – that is, water safe to drink.
- Unicode
- U+1F6B0
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :potable_
water: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🚰 Potable Water emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
02 — Platforms
Potable Water emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the potable water has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Potable Water emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :potable_water:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F6B0.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🚰 Potable Water emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Potable Water emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the potable water as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Potable Water emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around potable water 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
Chat apps do not change U+1F6B0, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Difference
🚰 vs 🚾 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Potable Water
Code: U+1F6B0 · added 2015
Shortcode: :potable_water:
Generally, the 🚰 emoji means water.
Unicode name: Water Closet
Code: U+1F6BE · added 2010
Shortcode: :wc:
Generally, when someone sends the 🚾 emoji, they are literally indicating they need to use a restroom.
11 — History
Where the 🚰 Potable Water emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F6B0 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.
Potable Water was approved as U+1F6B0 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ