Copy and paste the Vertical Traffic Light emoji (🚦) in one click. View its Travel & Places context, status usage, and Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015) developer codes (U+1F6A6).
Unicode Definition: Depicts vertical traffic light (🚦), part of Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015) (U+1F6A6) under the "transport-ground" travel and geography subgroup.
Context & Expression: Captures wanderlust, commuting, vacation countdowns, architectural appreciation, and a sense of place or time.
Status Tip: Vertical Traffic Light (🚦) is widely used in Slack/Teams out-of-office statuses, travel itineraries, and event location headers.
Popular in out-of-office Slack statuses, Instagram story location headers, travel vlogs, and "on my way" texts (🚦💨).
Combine 🚦 with complementary symbols or text labels to make social captions, Slack statuses, and threads immediately scannable.
See how the Vertical Traffic Light emoji looks in everyday mobile messaging.
Where are you guys at? We just grabbed a table inside
Literally 5 minutes away 🚦 save us two seats!
Got you covered, see you in a sec!
Apple iOS includes intricate architectural and vehicle details; Google Android uses clean, high-contrast travel iconography; Samsung and Microsoft Windows feature distinct perspective angles.
High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting
System Font: 'Apple Color Emoji'| Platform / Vendor | Glyph Preview | System Emoji Font | Rendering Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple iOS / macOS | 🚦 | Apple Color Emoji | High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting |
| Google Android | 🚦 | Noto Color Emoji | Clean, rounded Noto Color Emoji vector geometry |
| Samsung One UI | 🚦 | Samsung Color Emoji | Vibrant high-contrast One UI color styling |
| Microsoft Windows | 🚦 | Segoe UI Emoji | Fluent Design 3D shading (renders 2-letter ISO codes for country flags) |
| X / Discord (Twemoji) | 🚦 | Twitter Color Emoji | Flat minimalist Twemoji SVG iconography |
Verified Unicode code points, HTML entities, CSS/JS escapes, UTF-8 bytes, and version data.
| Character | 🚦 |
|---|---|
| Official Unicode Name | Vertical Traffic Light |
| Unicode Code Point | U+1F6A6 |
| HTML Decimal Entity | 🚦 |
| HTML Hex Entity | 🚦 |
| CSS Escape Code | \01F6A6 |
| JavaScript / ES6 Escape | \u{1F6A6} |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 9A A6 |
| Shortcode (Slack / Discord / GitHub) | :vertical_traffic_light: |
| Emoji / Unicode Version | Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015) |
| Category & Subgroup | Travel & Places (transport-ground) |
Quick answers about meaning, OS rendering, and developer escape codes.
Captures wanderlust, commuting, vacation countdowns, architectural appreciation, and a sense of place or time. It belongs to the Travel & Places category and was standardized in Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015).
Popular in out-of-office Slack statuses, Instagram story location headers, travel vlogs, and "on my way" texts (🚦💨).
Click the "Copy Emoji (🚦)" button at the top of this page to copy the character to your clipboard, then press Ctrl+V (Windows/Linux), Cmd+V (macOS), or long-press Paste (iOS/Android) in any app.
The Unicode code point is U+1F6A6 (Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015)). In HTML use 🚦 or 🚦; in CSS pseudo-elements use content: "\01F6A6"; in JavaScript use "\u{1F6A6}"; and in Slack/Discord/GitHub use shortcode :vertical_traffic_light:.
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