Antenna bars Emoji

Symbols

A blue square icon containing four white vertical bars of increasing height. It looks exactly like the signal strength indicator found at the top of a mobile phone screen.

Usage Context

Used to describe the state of your internet connection or cell service. People post it to signal that they are experiencing bad reception, to jokingly claim they have 'full bars' of energy, or to confirm they are back online after being disconnected. It is often grouped with the 🔋 emoji to summarize the status of a device.

History

This icon was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 to help mobile users communicate connection issues without needing to take a screenshot of their phone interface. It replicates the classic visual language used by early 2000s cellular networks to show how close a user was to a cell tower.

Details

Glyph

📶

Unicode

U+1F4F6

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f4f6:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDCF6;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Symbols

Subcategory av-symbol

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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