Low battery Emoji

Objects

A vertical battery icon with a mostly empty interior, featuring a red bar at the bottom to indicate that the device power is nearly depleted. It serves as a universal visual signal that a machine needs to be plugged in immediately.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to signal that the sender is going offline, running out of time, or feeling physically or mentally exhausted. It is often sent alongside 🔌 to request a charger or 💀 to indicate a total loss of power.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2022, this icon addresses the modern universal anxiety surrounding smartphone dependency. Its design mirrors the status bar alerts found on early 2000s mobile phones and laptops, where a flashing red icon meant an imminent system shutdown.

Details

Glyph

🪫

Unicode

U+1FAAB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faab:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEAB;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Objects

Subcategory computer

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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