Stop sign Emoji

Travel

A bright red octagonal sign featuring a bold white horizontal bar across its center. It is designed to be instantly recognizable as a command to halt movement or cease an activity.

Usage Context

Used in messaging to tell someone to stop what they are doing, reject an unwanted idea, or warn of a potential hazard. It serves as a digital version of a physical barrier, often appearing in heated online arguments or when someone wants to prevent a conversation from continuing, much like using 🚫 or ❌.

History

Adopted into the Unicode standard in 2010, the stop sign was added as part of the rapid expansion of transport-related icons. Its design is based on the international traffic standard mandated by the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, which ensures that the distinct octagonal shape remains universal across almost all countries to avoid language barriers on roads.

Details

Glyph

🛑

Unicode

U+1F6D1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f6d1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDED1;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Travel

Subcategory transport-ground

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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