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🧽 Sponge

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🧽 Emoji meaning

Cleaning, wiping away, soaking up, foaming, porous and full of holes.

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🧽 Meaning

Sponge on others or throw in the sponge. The sponge is used for washing and cleaning the home, the body, or the car.

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Soap vs sponge; both for cleaning dishes or surfaces.

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Sponge vs broom; both cleaning tools used for chores.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Sponge” was approved as part of Unicode 11.0 in 2018 and added to Emoji 11.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ soak

In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ absorbing + cleaning + porous + sponge

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