Symbols · Emoji 1.0
🚱Non-potable Water Emoji
It usually means the water isn't safe to drink – it’s contaminated or unsafe. People use it to warn others about potentially harmful water sources.
The 🚱 emoji means non-potable water.
- Unicode
- U+1F6B1
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :non-
potable_ water: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🚱 Non-potable Water emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
02 — Platforms
Non-potable Water emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F6B1. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Non-potable Water emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :non-potable_water:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the non-potable water, code point U+1F6B1.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🚱 Non-potable Water emoji
No picker to hand? The non-potable water can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Non-potable Water 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
06 — Combinations
Non-potable Water emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around non-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
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Difference
🚱 vs 🇱🇧 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Non-potable Water
Code: U+1F6B1 · added 2015
Shortcode: :non-potable_water:
It usually means the water isn't safe to drink – it’s contaminated or unsafe.
Unicode name: Flag: Lebanon
Code: U+1F1F1 U+1F1E7 · added 2015
Shortcode: :flag-lb:
Generally, the 🇱🇧 emoji represents Lebanon itself.
11 — History
Where the 🚱 Non-potable Water emoji came from
It arrived with the 1.0 release of the standard, which dates the non-potable water to 2015.
Same character every time — U+1F6B1 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.
Non-potable Water was approved as U+1F6B1 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