🚾

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🚾︎ 🚾️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
🚾 U+1F6BE, 🚾
WATER CLOSET
🚽
[U+1F6BD]
Transport and Map Symbols 🚿
[U+1F6BF]

🅏 U+1F14F, 🅏
SQUARED WC
🅎
[U+1F14E]
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement 🅐
[U+1F150]

🆏 U+1F18F, 🆏
NEGATIVE SQUARED WC
🆎
[U+1F18E]
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement 🆐
[U+1F190]

Translingual

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Alternative forms

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Unicode gives two alternative forms:

  • 🅏 (SQUARED WC)
  • 🆏 (NEGATIVE SQUARED WC)

Description

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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 (water closet); but see usage notes.

Symbol

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🚾

  1. (chiefly British) Indicates public toilets.
    • 1993, John E. Traister, Illustrated Dictionary for Building Construction, Fairmont Press, →ISBN, Mechanical Graphic Symbols, page 372:
      WC   Water Closet
    • 2015 July 2, “A new symbol for the toilet”, in BBC News[5]:
      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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Synonyms

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Hyponyms

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  • 🚹 (marks a public toilet used by men)
  • 🚺 (marks a public toilet used by women)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Department for Transport (2018 January 17) “Guidance: Road traffic sign images for reproduction”, in Government of the United Kingdom[1], retrieved 4 October 2023:[🚾 on a British informational traffic sign].
  2. ^ “🚾 Water Closet Emoji”, in Emojipedia[2], 2023 October 4 (last accessed), Emoji Designs
  3. ^ “The Unicode Standard, Version 15.0”, in The Unicode Standard[3], The Unicode Consortium, 2022, retrieved 4 October 2023, Transport and Map Symbols, page 3
  4. ^ Version 6.0.0 (The Unicode Standard)‎[4], Unicode Consortium, 2010 October 11, retrieved 4 October 2023