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Meaning & usage
What does the Basket emoji mean?
A wicker basket, for laundry, picnics and gathering things.
Homely and practical. Laundry and picnics claim it roughly equally.
How to use 🧺 naturally
Laundry posts, picnic plans and market shopping.
Object emoji usually point to an activity or topic rather than an emotion. They work well as labels in lists, captions and announcements, where the image makes the subject easy to scan.
From standard to slang
The history of 🧺
- 2018
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Basket was first defined as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. The first release under the current annual numbering.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2018 as an empty woven basket. The weave pattern is what makes it read as wicker and not as a bowl.
- Today
How its use evolved
Laundry posts, picnic plans and market shopping.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🧺 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Third load of the day 🧺
Everything packed, weather permitting 🧺
Market haul was excessive 🧺
When to use it
Using 🧺 clearly
Laundry posts, picnic plans and market shopping. It lands as basket emoji or 🧺 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the basket emoji
What does 🧺 mean in a text message?
A wicker basket, for laundry, picnics and gathering things. Homely and practical. Laundry and picnics claim it roughly equally.
Is 🧺 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are basket emoji, 🧺 meaning, picnic emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🧺 look different on another device?
U+1F9FA identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the basket emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🧺 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the basket emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🧺 as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🧺 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F9FA | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🧺 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧺 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F9FA | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9FA} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A7%BA | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F9FA
- Category
- Objects & Tech
- Also known as
- basket emoji🧺 meaningpicnic emoji
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