Water Closet
Vater
A symbol for Water Closet (WC). An English way to say bathroom. Indoor plumbing, which delivered water directly into a building through pipes, is relatively new and many houses were built before indoor plumbing was well established. When older homes were updated (remodeled) to include plumbing, a room in the house needed to be picked and converted to include water. Closets or small rooms were often selected, and thus came the term "water closet" to literally mean a closet with water plumbed into it. The pipes would run to sinks (a small basin for catching water), bath tubs (a large basin for holding water), toilets (a place to dispose of human waste) and showers (a place to stand under a shower of water).
Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
- This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
- In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) |
901 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |
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| Google Android Picture |
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| Google Hangouts Picture |
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| Twitter.com Picture |
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| LG Emoji Picture |
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| Samsung Emoji Picture |
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| Phantom Open Emoji Picture |
Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion |
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| "Short Code" Name |
:wc: |
| Keywords |
Water, Closet, Toilet, Bathroom, Throne, Porcelain, Waste, Flush, Plumbing |
Unicode Category Information
| Unicode Category |
Transport and Map Symbols |
| Unicode Range |
1F680โ1F6FF |
| Unicode Subcategory |
Signage and Other Symbols |
Editorial Comment
An icon with a blue background and the letters 'WC' on it. European for bathroom!
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
| Unicode Category |
Abstract Concepts |
| Unicode Subcategory |
Signage and Other Symbols |
| Names & Annotations |
WATER CLOSET |
| Symbol Information |
U+1F6BE proposed |
| Proposal Identifier |
e-508 |
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
| DoCoMo |
ย #49 'Toilet' ใใคใฌ ใtoireใ U+E66E SJIS-F8CF JIS-755E |
| KDDI |
ย #207 ใใคใฌ ใtoireใ U+E4A5 SJIS-F67D JIS-755E |
| Softbank |
ย #354 #old279 ใใคใฌใใผใฏ ใtoiremaakuใ U+E309 SJIS-F9A9 |
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