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A bold red circle with a thick horizontal white bar cutting through the middle. The design mimics standard international road signs used to indicate that vehicles are strictly prohibited from entering a specific zone.
Usage Context
Widely used in digital messaging to signify that something is off-limits, restricted, or flat-out rejected. It is frequently employed to shut down unwanted topics in group chats or to signal that a specific behavior is unacceptable, often appearing alongside 🚫 or 🛑 to reinforce a message of refusal.
History
Adopted into Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this icon draws directly from the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. Its primary purpose has always been to provide a universal, language-independent way to alert people that access or action is blocked, mirroring the real-world signs seen on highways and construction sites worldwide.
Details
Glyph
⛔
Unicode
U+26D4
Shortcode
:emoji_u26d4:
HTML Entity
⛔
Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Symbols
Subcategory warning
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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