🧺 Basket — fsymbols

Q: Is there an Easter basket emoji?

Not a dedicated one. People build it from 🧺 with 🥚, 🐣 or 🐰, which reads clearly as the basket of eggs and sweets given at Easter.

Q: Is there a shopping basket emoji?

No. The shopping emoji is the cart, 🛒. Some people, especially where "basket" is the usual word for an online cart, use 🧺 instead, and it is understood but less obvious.

What 🧺 means

A plain wicker basket, the kind used for laundry, picnics and gathering.

The official name is simply "basket", with no job attached. As of 2026 most platforms draw a light-brown woven basket with two handles, and several tuck a folded cloth or a few clothes inside, which is why so many people read it straight away as a laundry basket or washing basket. Others show it empty, so the same message can look like "washing day" on one phone and "what's in the basket?" on another.

It arrived in 2018 as part of a batch of household objects (soap, sponge, broom, lotion, toilet paper, safety pin, fire extinguisher) that filled a long-standing gap: before then there was no emoji for ordinary chores. 🧺 took the laundry slot, and that is still where most people reach for it: chore lists, "finally caught up on washing", flat-share reminders, and cleaning routines shared on social media.

What does it mean when someone sends 🧺?

Usually a chore or a plan, never a hidden message.

On its own or next to or it means laundry: "doing a load", "your clothes are in the basket", or a gentle nudge that the washing is piling up. It does not tell you whether the clothes are dirty or clean. A real laundry basket carries clothes to the machine and back again, so "folded everything 🧺" is a brag about tidiness, not a complaint.

Add food and the basket changes job. Beside bread, cheese, fruit or a sandwich it is a picnic basket, often with or to set the scene, and it is a friendly way to propose meeting outdoors. Beside apples, mushrooms or vegetables it is a harvest or market basket, popular with gardeners and farm-stand sellers. Beside or it is an Easter basket, the basket of eggs and sweets children receive in many Christian and secular Easter traditions in Europe and the Americas. And in a tidying message (toys, a child's room, a move) it just means gathering things into one place.

Because the drawing varies, say the activity in a word or two if it matters. "Picnic Saturday? 🧺" lands; a bare 🧺 may read as "I have chores".

Everyday and domestic, light and practical; it borrows its mood from the chore, picnic or holiday it sits beside.

Sent bare to a housemate or partner it can read as "the washing is your job", even if you meant your own.

Part of the collection

🏠

Home & House Emoji

What it means when someone sends it to you

5 readings

Laundry, dirty or clean; often "doing the washing" or a reminder about it.

Don't confuse it with

3

🗑️

Wastebasket

A wastebasket for rubbish or deleting things. 🧺 keeps or carries things; nothing is being thrown away.

🛒

Shopping Cart

A shopping cart, the emoji for buying things online or in a store. 🧺 is a hand-carried basket and is only loosely used for shopping.

🪣

Bucket

A bucket, for mopping and water. 🧺 is woven and holds dry things.

Related characters

2

🧼

Soap

Soap, encoded in the same 2018 household set and the emoji most often paired with 🧺 to spell out laundry.

🧹

Broom

Broom, another member of the same household-chores batch; together they cover the cleaning-day vocabulary.

Combination ideas

7

Packed food or a picnic.

Laundry day.

A pile of laundry waiting.

An Easter egg hunt.

Apple picking.

A picnic plan.

An Easter basket.

Worth knowing

Until 2018 there was no emoji for laundry, cleaning or most household chores. 🧺 joined soap, a sponge, a broom and a fire extinguisher in one batch that fixed that.
Unicode's own search keywords for 🧺 are "farming", "laundry" and "picnic", a neat summary of its three lives.

Questions people ask

4

Is 🧺 a laundry basket or a picnic basket?

Both. Officially it is just a basket, and the drawing differs by phone. In everyday messages it most often means laundry, but add food, sunshine or eggs and readers will see a picnic, harvest or Easter basket instead.

Is there an Easter basket emoji?

Not a dedicated one. People build it from 🧺 with , or , which reads clearly as the basket of eggs and sweets given at Easter.

Is there a shopping basket emoji?

No. The shopping emoji is the cart, . Some people, especially where "basket" is the usual word for an online cart, use 🧺 instead, and it is understood but less obvious.

Does 🧺 mean "hamper"?

It can, but check which hamper. In American English a hamper is a laundry basket, which fits 🧺 perfectly. In British English a hamper is a gift or picnic basket of food, which 🧺 also covers once food is mentioned.