Pile of Poo Emoji
A smiling coil of poop. Cheerful rather than crude, and used to call something rubbish.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Pile of Poo emoji mean?
A smiling coil of poop. Cheerful rather than crude, and used to call something rubbish.
Cheerfully rude. The smile is doing a lot of work: it makes the emoji friendly enough to send to a colleague about a piece of work.
How to use 💩 naturally
Dismissing bad work, toilet humour and a surprisingly common friendly insult.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 💩
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Pile of Poo was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A cartoon swirl with a smiling face, drawn from the Japanese unko character that predates emoji. It was in SoftBank's original 1997 set.
- Today
How its use evolved
Dismissing bad work, toilet humour and a surprisingly common friendly insult.
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.
Draft one was 💩, draft two is fine
The remake was genuinely 💩
My handwriting is 💩 but legible
When to use it
Using 💩 clearly
Dismissing bad work, toilet humour and a surprisingly common friendly insult. It lands as pile of poo 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 pile of poo emoji
What does 💩 mean in a text message?
A smiling coil of poop. Cheerful rather than crude, and used to call something rubbish. Cheerfully rude. The smile is doing a lot of work: it makes the emoji friendly enough to send to a colleague about a piece of work.
Is 💩 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are pile of poo emoji, 💩 meaning, poop emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 💩 look different on another device?
U+1F4A9 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 pile of poo 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 pile of poo emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 💩 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. 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+1F4A9 | 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 | \1F4A9 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4A9} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%92%A9 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F4A9
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- pile of poo emoji💩 meaningpoop emoji
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