🚾 Meaning – Water Closet Emoji

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The image of a water closet or a square with the letters WC is the emoji used for a public toilet, a bathroom or restroom used in some countries. This may be found on signage in public buildings as an alternative to the restroom symbol. Water Closet Emoji can mean "I am going to the toilet." or "This room is the bathroom!".

The Water Closet Emoji appeared in 2010, and also known as the Wc Emoji.

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Water Closet Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F6BE
Unicode name: Water Closet
Category: Symbols / Transport Signs
Keywords: lavatory, restroom, water, wc
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F6BE
Decimal HTML Entity: 🚾
Hex HTML Entity: 🚾
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83D 0xDEBE
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flush_toilet
Version: Unicode 6.0
Year: 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

🌐 Water Closet Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	WC	Toilette
Français	WC	toilettes
Русский	туалет	WC, женский туалет, мужской туалет, общественный туалет, уборная, унитаз
Español	aseos	lavabo, servicios, WC
Italiano	simbolo del WC	bagno, gabinetto, WC
Português	WC	latrina, lavabo, toalete
Polski	WC	szalet, toaleta, ubikacja, ustęp, wc

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How to type Water Closet Emoji

There are number of methods to type Water Closet Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 🚾 emoji

It's very easy to get Water Closet Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 🚾 meaning and look at 🚾 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

🚾 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.