Symbols · Emoji 0.6
🚾Water Closet Emoji
Generally, when someone sends the 🚾 emoji, they are literally indicating they need to use a restroom. It’s a direct way to communicate that need.
The 🚾 emoji represents a public restroom sign.
- Unicode
- U+1F6BE
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :wc:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🚾 Water Closet emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 7.
02 — Platforms
Water Closet emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the water closet 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
Water Closet emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :wc:.
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+1F6BE.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🚾 Water Closet emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Water Closet 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
06 — Combinations
Water Closet emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around water closet 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
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: 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.
Unicode name: Potable Water
Code: U+1F6B0 · added 2015
Shortcode: :potable_water:
Generally, the 🚰 emoji means water.
11 — History
Where the 🚾 Water Closet 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+1F6BE 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
NTT DoCoMo E66E, KDDI au E4A5, SoftBank E309.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Water Closet was approved as U+1F6BE 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.
12 — FAQ