Soap Emoji

Copy the soap emoji, or take a hand holding soap, a typed bar or a bath combo.

🧼SoapU+1F9FCReady to copy

86 items. Tap one to copy it.

Soap and washing 16

Holding soap 5

Soap symbols 5

Soap emoticons 5

Soap drawings 4

Soap in words 10

Soap words 15

Soap lines 8

Soap combos 18

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How it works

The soap emoji is 🧼, U+1F9FC, from Emoji 11.0, and Unicode’s own name for the character is Bar of soap. It stands with the household emoji between 🪣 Bucket and 🫧 Bubbles, the only other emoji filed under soap.

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Lather, clean and soapdish

CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, gives 🧼 seven: bar, bathing, clean, cleaning, lather, soap and soapdish. Lather and soapdish lead to no other emoji. Clean is shared with 🫧 and 🪥 Toothbrush, cleaning with 🧹 Broom and 🧽 Sponge. Nothing is filed under wash, suds, foam or scrub.

A soap symbol that is not an emoji

Unicode names one more character for soap: U+1F754 Alchemical symbol for soap, added in Unicode 6.0. It is not an emoji and may show as an empty box, so the stand-in here is ◊ Lozenge, which Unicode cross-references it to.

Questions and answers

Is there an emoji holding soap or handing soap?

Not as one emoji: 🧼 is the only emoji with soap in its name. The tiles under Holding soap set a hand before it: 🫴 Palm up hand, which CLDR files under hold and offer, or 🤲 Palms up together, filed under cupped.

How do you type a soap emoticon?

Wikipedia’s list of emoticons has no soap. Ours is a bar in square brackets, [ soap ], and a second bar with bubbles rising off it: two underscores in brackets, then a degree sign, a small o and a capital O.

What does the soap emoji mean?

A bar for washing: by Wikipedia soap is a fatty acid's salt used for cleaning. With 📺 after it the emoji reads soap opera, a name Wiktionary traces to the detergent and soap commercials first broadcast during the shows.

All 86 items

Soap and washing 16

  • Basket U+1F9FA. Filed under laundry and basket. Emoji 11.0.
  • Bathtub U+1F6C1. Filed under bath and bathtub. Emoji 1.0.
  • Broom U+1F9F9. Filed under cleaning, sweeping and broom. Emoji 11.0.
  • Bubbles U+1FAE7. The emoji after Soap in Unicode’s list. Filed under soap, clean and bubbles. Emoji 14.0.
  • Bucket U+1FAA3. The emoji before Soap in Unicode’s list. Filed under bucket and pail. Emoji 13.0.
  • Droplet U+1F4A7. Filed under water, drop and droplet. Emoji 0.6.
  • Lotion bottle U+1F9F4. Filed under shampoo, lotion and bottle. Emoji 11.0.
  • Person taking bath U+1F6C0. Filed under bath, tub and bathtub. Emoji 0.6.
  • Potable water U+1F6B0. Filed under water, potable and drinking. Emoji 1.0.
  • Roll of paper U+1F9FB. Filed under paper, towels and roll. Emoji 11.0.
  • Shower U+1F6BF. Filed under shower and water. Emoji 1.0.
  • Soap U+1F9FC. Filed under soap, bar, lather and soapdish. Emoji 11.0.
  • Sparkles U+2728. Filed under sparkle, sparkles and star. Emoji 0.6.
  • Sponge U+1F9FD. Filed under cleaning, sponge and soak. Emoji 11.0.
  • Sweat droplets U+1F4A6. Filed under water, splashing and wet. Emoji 0.6.
  • Toothbrush U+1FAA5. Filed under clean, hygiene and bathroom. Emoji 13.0.
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Holding soap 5

  • Handing over the soap Palm up hand, then soap.
  • Hands, washed Open hands, then soap, then sparkles.
  • Holding the soap Palms up together, then soap.
  • Lathering up Palms up together, then soap, then bubbles.
  • Reaching for the soap Rightwards hand, then soap.

Soap symbols 5

  • Alchemical symbol for soap U+1F754. Unicode 6.0, in the block Alchemical symbols. Not an emoji. May show as an empty box.
  • Lozenge U+25CA. Unicode cross-references the alchemical symbol for soap to it. A stand-in that shows where the symbol does not.
  • Soap, as a Han character U+7682. A Han character. Unihan defines it as soap; black; menial servant.
  • Wash, as a Han character U+6D17. A Han character. Unihan defines it as wash, rinse; clean, purify.
  • White medium diamond U+2B26. Unicode’s second cross-reference from the alchemical symbol for soap.

Soap emoticons 5

  • [__] ° o O A bar with bubbles rising off it
  • |_|= soap A pump and a word. Plain ASCII
  • [ soap ] A bar in square brackets. Plain ASCII
  • ~[ soap ]~ A slippery bar. Plain ASCII
  • (soap) A rounder bar. Plain ASCII

Soap drawings 4

  • Bar of soap, drawn Five lines of ASCII
  • Bubbles, drawn Four lines of ASCII
  • Pump bottle, drawn Six lines of ASCII
  • Soap dish, drawn Four lines of ASCII

Soap in words 10

  • мыло Russian for soap, by Wiktionary
  • 石鹸 Japanese for soap, by Wiktionary
  • jabón Spanish for soap; a bar of soap, by Wiktionary
  • sabão Portuguese for soap, by Wiktionary
  • sabun Turkish and Indonesian for soap, by Wiktionary
  • sapone Italian for soap, by Wiktionary
  • savon French for soap, by Wiktionary
  • Seife German for soap, by Wiktionary
  • tvål Swedish for soap or a bar of soap, by Wiktionary
  • zeep Dutch for soap, by Wiktionary

Soap words 15

  • Bar soap 🧼 By Wiktionary: Any kind of soap made in a bar shape
  • Lather 🫧 By Wiktionary: Foam from soap and water stirred rapidly
  • Liquid soap 🧴 By Wiktionary: Any of various liquid soaps for washing hands, dishes, cars and so on
  • Saponify 🧪 By Wiktionary: To make soap out of (a fat or oil)
  • Soap bubble 🫧 By Wiktionary: A very thin film of soapy water forming a sphere whose surface is iridescent
  • Soap dish 🧼 By Wiktionary: A dish-like holder for a bar of soap
  • Soap dispenser 🧴 By Wiktionary: A simple device, often on a wall, that gives out liquid soap when pressed
  • Soap opera 📺 By Wiktionary: A radio or television serial
  • Soapbox 📦 By Wiktionary: A crate for packing soap
  • Soapmaking 🧼 By Wiktionary: The process or business of making soap
  • Soapstone 🪨 By Wiktionary: A soft, talc-rich rock
  • Soapwort 🌿 By Wiktionary, a plant: any perennial herb in the genus Saponaria
  • Soft-soap 🧼 By Wiktionary: Persuading by flattery or pleasing words
  • Squeaky clean ✨ By Wiktionary: So clean that, like a hard surface, it squeaks if rubbed
  • Suds 🫧 By Wiktionary: Lather; froth or foam from mixing soap with water

Soap lines 8

  • 🧼 Bath time For the end of the day
  • 🧼 Bubble bath, do not disturb For a closed door
  • 🧼 Car wash at noon For a plan
  • 🧼 Dishes: your turn For the chore chart
  • 🧼 Fresh sheets day For laundry done
  • 🧼 Out of soap, add it to the list For the shopping list
  • 🧼 Smells like lavender For a new bar
  • 🧼 Wash your hands, dinner is ready For the family chat

Soap combos 18

  • Bath night Bathtub, then soap, then bubbles.
  • Big clean-up Bucket, then soap, then sponge.
  • Dish duty Soap, then sponge, then fork and knife with plate.
  • Dog wash Dog, then soap, then sweat droplets.
  • Goat milk soap Goat, then glass of milk, then soap.
  • Hands under the tap Soap, then open hands, then potable water.
  • Honey soap Honey pot, then soap.
  • Laundry load Basket, then soap, then t-shirt.
  • Lavender soap Soap, then hyacinth.
  • Lemon soap Lemon, then soap.
  • Olive oil soap Olive, then soap.
  • On a soapbox Soap, then package, then megaphone.
  • Shower gel Shower, then lotion bottle.
  • Slippery when wet Soap, then dashing away.
  • Soap and water Soap, then droplet.
  • Soap opera Soap, then television.
  • Suds Soap, then bubbles, twice.
  • Washing the car Automobile, then soap, then bubbles.

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). Soap is U+1F9FC, Emoji 11.0, in the group Objects, subgroup household, between Bucket and Bubbles. Its CLDR words are bar, bathing, clean, cleaning, lather, soap and soapdish. Two emoji are filed under soap (Soap and Bubbles); lather and soapdish lead to Soap alone; clean is shared with Bubbles and Toothbrush and cleaning with Broom and Sponge; nothing is filed under wash, washing, suds, foam, scrub or rinse. Soap is the only emoji with soap in its name. Palm up hand is filed under hold and offer, Palms up together under cupped. The skin tones of Person taking bath are the five rows emoji-test.txt lists. Character names, cross-references and ages are from UnicodeData.txt, NamesList.txt and DerivedAge.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt, https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt): the emoji's character name is Bar of soap; the only other character named for soap is U+1F754 Alchemical symbol for soap (Unicode 6.0, block Alchemical Symbols), which is not in the emoji list and is cross-referenced to U+25CA Lozenge and U+2B26 White medium diamond. U+1F9FC has no text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. Unihan 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip) defines 皂 as soap; black; menial servant and 洗 as wash, rinse; clean, purify. Wikipedia, Soap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap): soap is a fatty acid's salt used for cleaning. Wikipedia’s List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) has no soap. The soap words and the words in other languages are as Wiktionary gives them (CC BY-SA 4.0): lather (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lather), soap opera (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soap_opera), jabón (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jabón), savon (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/savon), Seife (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Seife), sapone (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sapone), sabão (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sabão), zeep (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zeep), tvål (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tvål), sabun (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sabun), мыло (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/мыло), 石鹸 (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/石鹸), suds (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/suds), soap bubble (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soap_bubble), bar soap (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bar_soap), liquid soap (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/liquid_soap), soap dish (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soap_dish), soap dispenser (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soap_dispenser), soapbox (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soapbox), soft-soap (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soft-soap), squeaky clean (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/squeaky_clean), soapstone (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soapstone), soapwort (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soapwort), saponify (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saponify), soapmaking (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soapmaking). The pairs of a hand and soap, the typed bars, the four drawings, the eight 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, Han definitions are Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Definitions marked By Wiktionary are quoted from Wiktionary 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.