What does 🚨 mean?
Police car light: alarm, emergency, 'attention, important!', breaking news.
Its official Unicode name is POLICE CARS REVOLVING LIGHT and its CLDR short name is "police car light" (in Hungarian: "rendőrautó villogója"). It belongs to the Travel & Places group and was added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010.
Keywords that find it
Keyboards and emoji pickers suggest it for these words (Unicode CLDR).
- alarm
- alert
- beacon
- car
- emergency
- light
- police
- revolving
- siren
In Hungarian: autó, forgó, jármű, lámpa, mentő, rendőr, riaszt, sziréna, tűzoltó, vészhelyzet
Will it look the same for everyone?
Every vendor (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, WhatsApp and Facebook) draws 🚨 in its own style, so the colours or shape may differ a little for the person you send it to. The meaning stays the same, because the text always carries the same code point: U+1F6A8. It has been around for years, so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Technical details
- Official name
- POLICE CARS REVOLVING LIGHT
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- rendőrautó villogója
- English name (CLDR)
- police car light
- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6 (2010)
- Group
- Travel & Places · transport ground
- Length
- 1 code point · 4 bytes in UTF-8 · 2 UTF-16 units
- Shortcode
- :rotating_light:
Related emojis
- Automobile
- Locomotive
- Railway car
- High-speed train
- Bullet train
- Train
- Metro
- Light rail
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🚨 emoji mean?
Police car light: alarm, emergency, 'attention, important!', breaking news.
How do I type the 🚨 emoji?
The easiest way is to copy it from this page. On Windows open the Win + . panel, on a Mac press Ctrl + Cmd + Space, and on a phone search the emoji keyboard for "alarm".
When was the 🚨 emoji added?
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010), so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Data: Unicode emoji-test.txt and Unicode Character Database 18.0, Unicode CLDR (names, keywords), GitHub gemoji (shortcodes). The meaning describes everyday online use, not an official definition.