🧺 Basket

A basket, as used for storing or carrying such things as food or clothes. Appearance widely varies across platforms but generally depicted as woven from wicker with one or more handles. Commonly used to represent doing laundry or having a picnic.

Google’s design suggests a laundry basket holding a blue garment or cloth. Apple and WhatsApp’s designs, featuring a white cloth, suggest a bread or picnic basket. Samsung’s design displays green fabric, as knitted from yarn.

Not to be confused with 🗑️ Wastebasket.

Basket was approved as part of Unicode 11.0 in 2018 and added to Emoji 11.0 in 2018.

🚩 New in 2018: requires updated software.