Broom 🧹

Picture a classic broom with a sturdy wooden handle and bristles spread wide at the base, rendered in warm browns and tans. The bristles fan outward naturally, capturing that familiar silhouette you'd recognize instantly in any closet or cartoon witch scene.

On the surface, people use this emoji for cleaning, sweeping, and household chores—the literal stuff of tidying up. But it's evolved into something more playful and figurative. The broom has become shorthand for sweeping things under the rug, ignoring problems, or making something disappear. It also shows up when people want to reference witches, magic, or Halloween vibes, tapping into that iconic witch-on-a-broomstick imagery from pop culture.

In some contexts, especially on platforms like TikTok and Twitter, the broom emoji takes on sarcastic or shade-throwing energy—the idea of "sweeping away" drama or bad energy. It's genuinely versatile depending on context and tone. The broom's association with witchcraft and feminine power has made it popular in spaces celebrating witchy aesthetics and alternative communities.

Introduced as part of Unicode Emoji 11 in 2018, the broom sits comfortably among household-themed emoji, blending practical domesticity with cultural symbolism and humor.