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Meaning & usage
What does the Shopping Cart emoji mean?
A shopping trolley, for supermarkets, online baskets and buying.
Commercial and plain. Online shopping has made it the universal sign for a basket.
How to use 🛒 naturally
Shopping lists, sale posts and anything about a checkout.
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 🛒
- 2016
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Shopping Cart was first defined as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Part of the rapid mid-decade expansion beyond the original mobile set.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2016 as an empty wire trolley. It was proposed specifically because online shopping had no symbol, despite the icon being everywhere on the web.
- Today
How its use evolved
Shopping lists, sale posts and anything about a checkout.
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.
Cart full, resolve empty 🛒
Big shop done for the week 🛒
Sale starts at nine 🛒
When to use it
Using 🛒 clearly
Shopping lists, sale posts and anything about a checkout. It lands as shopping cart emoji or trolley emoji 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 shopping cart emoji
What does 🛒 mean in a text message?
A shopping trolley, for supermarkets, online baskets and buying. Commercial and plain. Online shopping has made it the universal sign for a basket.
Is 🛒 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are shopping cart emoji, trolley emoji, basket emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🛒 look different on another device?
U+1F6D2 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 shopping cart 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 shopping cart emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🛒 as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. 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+1F6D2 | 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 | \1F6D2 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F6D2} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%9B%92 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F6D2
- Category
- Objects & Tech
- Also known as
- shopping cart emojitrolley emojibasket emoji
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