High voltage emoji ⚡
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+26A1
What ⚡ means
High voltage ⚡ goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: danger, electric, electricity, high, lightning, nature, thunder, thunderbolt, voltage, zap.
Those words also drive emoji search: try danger or electric on your phone to find ⚡.
On the emoji keyboard, ⚡ sits with the sky and weather (48 emoji) inside travel & places, which has 221 emoji, for example ❄️ ☃️ ⛄ ☄️.
Will ⚡ show on my friend's phone?
⚡ has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type ⚡
To find ⚡ quickly, type high voltage into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type high voltage.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type high voltage in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type high voltage.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees ⚡ as one code point, U+26A1: 3 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 1 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+26A1 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | ⚡ | |
| HTML (decimal) | ⚡ | |
| CSS | content: "\26A1"; | |
| JavaScript | \u26A1 | |
| URL | %E2%9A%A1 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9A A1 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of ⚡ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | high voltage |
| Português | alta tensão |
| Español | alto voltaje |
| Italiano | alta tensione |
| Français | haute tension |
| Deutsch | Hochspannung |
| Türkçe | yüksek voltaj |
| Bahasa Indonesia | tegangan tinggi |
| Polski | wysokie napięcie |
| Русский | высокое напряжение |
| 日本語 | 高電圧 |
| 한국어 | 고압 주의 |
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What does the high voltage emoji mean?
Unicode calls ⚡ "high voltage" and links it with danger, electric, electricity, high. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sky and weather subgroup of travel & places.
When was the high voltage emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the high voltage emoji?
To find ⚡ quickly, type high voltage into the emoji search.