Dumpster Fire Emoji

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-11 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Unicode has no emoji named dumpster or dumpster fire: no emoji name in that list, no CLDR search word and no character name in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), holds dumpster, and CLDR files nothing under rubbish, skip, chaos or burning. CLDR files trash, garbage and waste under Wastebasket alone (U+1F5D1 U+FE0F, Emoji 0.7), flame under Fire alone (U+1F525, Emoji 0.6), bin under Litter in bin sign alone, disaster under Landslide alone and mess under Splatter alone; eight emoji are filed under fire. Wikipedia, Dumpster fire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster_fire, CC BY-SA 4.0): an informal term for a catastrophically bad situation; the phrase, together with the two emoji for its separate words, was named the American Dialect Society’s word of the year. That the year was 2016 is from Wikipedia, Word of the year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year) and American Dialect Society (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dialect_Society). Wiktionary, dumpster fire (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dumpster_fire, CC BY-SA 4.0): US slang, a disaster; an unmanageable, unpleasant, chaotic thing, situation or person. Wiktionary, dumpster (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dumpster): in Canada and the US, a big trash receptacle, usually metal, that a garbage truck hoists up to empty. Wikipedia, Dumpster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster): other English-speaking countries may say skip. Wikipedia, Skip (container) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_(container)): in British, Australian, Irish and New Zealand English, a big waste container with an open top, made to be loaded on a special kind of lorry. Wikipedia’s List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) has no dumpster. The other words for a disaster are as Wiktionary defines them: train wreck (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/train_wreck), hot mess (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hot_mess), fiasco (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fiasco), debacle (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/debacle), shambles (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shambles), omnishambles (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/omnishambles), car crash (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/car_crash). The typed dumpsters, the drawings, the caption lines and the combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Definitions marked By Wikipedia or By Wiktionary are quoted from them under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); other facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words. All are credited in the source line.