How it works
The poop emoji is Pile of poo, U+1F4A9. Copy and paste it here with the toilet, the paper and the plunger, text swirls, four small drawings, the Japanese word for it and thirteen combos.
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What Unicode says about it
Pile of poo has been an emoji since Emoji 0.6. Unicode's notes give it one other name, dog dirt, and say it may be drawn with or without a friendly face. The emoji list puts it first among the costume faces, ahead of the clown and the ghost. CLDR files it under poop, dung, stink and comic.
The lucky golden one
In Japan a golden poop, ้ใฎใใใ, is a good luck charm: Wikipedia records its name as a pun on good luck. ใใใ is a child's word for poop, and ้, the character for luck, is read un.
- Plunger is the only other emoji CLDR files under poop.
- The last drawing uses periods for spaces, so a narrow box cannot bend it.
Questions and answers
What is the poop emoji called?
Pile of poo, U+1F4A9. That is its Unicode name, and Unicode's notes add dog dirt as another. It dates from Emoji 0.6, and CLDR files it under poo, poop and dung.
Does the poop emoji have a face?
That depends on the device. Unicode's note says it may or may not be drawn with a friendly face, and CLDR files it under face. This page copies the character; the device you paste into draws it.
How do you make a poop emoji with keyboard characters?
On one line, type an at sign in parentheses for the swirl: (@). For a bigger one, stack rows of parentheses and underscores, each wider than the last. Four ready drawings are in the group Small poop drawings in text.
Why is a golden poop lucky in Japan?
Wikipedia records the golden poop charm, Kin no unko, as a symbol of good luck whose name is a pun on good luck in Japanese. Wiktionary gives un as the reading of ้, luck, and unko as a child's word for poop.