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Cleaning and tidying
Time to do some cleaning! 🧽🧼
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Sponge
The 🧽 Sponge emoji depicts a porous cleaning tool, typically yellow or orange, used for absorbing liquids and scrubbing surfaces. Its primary meaning relates to cleaning, hygiene, and household chore...
Meaning & Usage
The 🧽 Sponge emoji depicts a porous cleaning tool, typically yellow or orange, used for absorbing liquids and scrubbing surfaces. Its primary meaning relates to cleaning, hygiene, and household chores. People use it to represent the act of cleaning, tidying up, or scrubbing something. Metaphorically, the sponge emoji can also represent someone or something that absorbs information or knowledge readily, similar to how a sponge absorbs water. It can also refer to being a freeloader or someone who leeches off others. The Sponge emoji was introduced in Unicode version 11.0 in 2018.
Usage Contexts
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Household chores
Ugh, I have so many chores to do today. 🧽🧺🧹
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Absorbing information
My brain is like a sponge today! 🧽📖
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Referring to someone who leeches off others
Don't be a sponge! Contribute something. 🧽
Platform Appearances
ℹ️ All images shown are from open-licensed sources (Apache 2.0, MIT, CC-BY 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0) and are free to use.
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🇹🇷
Sünger
Türkçe
🇩🇪
Schwamm
Deutsch
🇫🇷
Éponge
Français
🇮🇳
स्पंज
हिन्दी
🇸🇦
اسفنجة
العربية
🇷🇺
Губка
Русский
🇵🇰
اسفنج
اردو
🇮🇩
Spons
Bahasa Indonesia
🇻🇳
Bọt biển
Tiếng Việt
🇹🇭
ฟองน้ำ
ไทย
🇮🇷
لیف حمام
فارسی
🇳🇬
Goga
Hausa
🇪🇹
ስፖንጅ
አማርኛ
🇹🇿
Sifongo
Kiswahili
🇧🇩
স্পঞ্জ
বাংলা
🇲🇲
ရေမြှုပ်
မြန်မာ
🇺🇿
Gubka
Oʻzbek
🇮🇳
स्पंज
मराठी
🇮🇳
స్పాంజ్
తెలుగు
🇮🇩
Spon
Jawa
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Îsfinc
Kurdî
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Ispongha
Filipino
Usage Tips
Cleaning Motivation
Use this emoji to motivate yourself or others to clean up.
Expressing Learning
Combine with other emojis to show you are learning a lot (e.g., 🧽🧠📚).
Avoid Misinterpretation
Be mindful of the context, as it can also have negative connotations related to being a freeloader.
Developer Codes
U+1F9FD
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