🚾


🚾 U+1F6BE, 🚾
WATER CLOSET
← 🚽
[U+1F6BD]
Transport and Map Symbols 🚿 β†’
[U+1F6BF]

πŸ… U+1F14F, 🅏
SQUARED WC
← πŸ…Ž
[U+1F14E]
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement πŸ… β†’
[U+1F150]

πŸ† U+1F18F, 🆏
NEGATIVE SQUARED WC
← πŸ†Ž
[U+1F18E]
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement πŸ† β†’
[U+1F190]

Translingual

Alternative forms

Unicode gives two alternative forms:

Description

A road sign in Dalwhinnie, Scotland bearing 🚾
A common depiction of 🚾 in emoji; Noto Project emoji pictured

A blue box with the white text WC (β€œwater closet”); but see usage notes.

Symbol

🚾

  1. (chiefly British) Indicates public toilets.
    • 1993, John E. Traister, Illustrated Dictionary for Building Construction, Fairmont Press, β†’ISBN, Mechanical Graphic Symbols, page 372:
      WC   Water Closet
    • 2015 July 2, β€œA new symbol for the toilet”, in BBC Newsβ€Ž:
      Here PC stands for "public convenience", according to maps created by Ordnance Survey (OS), the UK's official mapping agency. Not WC, meaning "water closet", widely in use in cafes, bars, restaurants and so on to denote a toilet.

Usage notes

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See also

References

  1. Department for Transport (2018 January 17) β€œGuidance: Road traffic sign images for reproduction”, in Government of the United Kingdomβ€Ž, retrieved 4 October 2023: β€œ[🚾 on a British informational traffic sign].”
  2. β€œπŸšΎ Water Closet Emoji”, in Emojipediaβ€Ž, 2023 October 4 (last accessed), Emoji Designs
  3. β€œThe Unicode Standard, Version 15.0”, in The Unicode Standardβ€Ž, The Unicode Consortium, 2022, retrieved 4 October 2023, Transport and Map Symbols, page 3
  4. Version 6.0.0 (The Unicode Standard)β€Ž, Unicode Consortium, 2010 October 11, retrieved 4 October 2023
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