Vertical traffic light emoji 🚦
Emoji 1.0 (2015) · U+1F6A6
What 🚦 means
Vertical traffic light 🚦 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: drove, intersection, light, signal, stop, stoplight, traffic, vertical.
Those words also drive emoji search: try drove or intersection on your phone to find 🚦.
On the emoji keyboard, 🚦 sits with the cars and trains (50 emoji) inside travel & places, which has 221 emoji, for example 🛑 🚧 🚂 🚃.
Will 🚦 show on my friend's phone?
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015), 🚦 is old enough that all current phones, computers and apps show it.
How to type 🚦
To find 🚦 quickly, type vertical traffic light into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type vertical traffic light.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type vertical traffic light in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type vertical traffic light.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🚦 as one code point, U+1F6A6: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F6A6 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🚦 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🚦 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F6A6"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F6A6} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%9A%A6 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 9A A6 |
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 | vertical traffic light |
| Português | semáforo vertical |
| Español | semáforo |
| Italiano | semaforo verticale |
| Français | feu tricolore vertical |
| Deutsch | vertikale Verkehrsampel |
| Türkçe | dikey trafik ışıkları |
| Bahasa Indonesia | lampu lalu lintas vertikal |
| Polski | pionowa sygnalizacja uliczna |
| Русский | вертикальный светофор |
| 日本語 | 信号縦 |
| 한국어 | 세로 신호등 |
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What does the vertical traffic light emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🚦 "vertical traffic light" and links it with drove, intersection, light, signal. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the cars and trains subgroup of travel & places.
When was the vertical traffic light emoji added?
In Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the vertical traffic light emoji?
To find 🚦 quickly, type vertical traffic light into the emoji search.