Travel & Places · Ground transportation
🚦 Vertical Traffic Light
- Emoji
- 🚦
- Unicode
- U+1F6A6
- Shortcode
- :vertical_traffic_light:
- HTML code
- 🚦
- Approved in
- Emoji 1.0 (2015)
- Category
- Travel & Places
What does the 🚦 emoji mean?
The 🚦 emoji shows vertical traffic light. It belongs to Travel & Places (ground transportation) and is used when talking about drove, intersection, light and signal, trips, locations or the weather.
Keywords: drove, intersection, light, signal, stop, stoplight, traffic, vertical.
How 🚦 looks on each platform
Every company draws its own version of the same emoji.




Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp designs are copyrighted by each company, so we don't publish them as images. Open this page on an iPhone and the “Your device” box shows Apple's version; on a Samsung Galaxy, Samsung's.
How to type 🚦 on your keyboard
| iPhone | Open the keyboard, tap the emoji button 😀 and type “vertical traffic light” in “Search Emoji”. |
|---|---|
| Android | On Gboard or the Samsung keyboard, tap the emoji icon and search “vertical traffic light”. |
| Windows | Press Windows + . (period) and type “vertical traffic light”. |
| Mac | Press Control + Command + Space and search “vertical traffic light”. |
| Discord, Slack, GitHub | Type :vertical_traffic_light: |
🚦 emoji codes
| Official Unicode name | vertical traffic light |
|---|---|
| Code points | U+1F6A6 |
| HTML decimal | 🚦 |
| HTML hex | 🚦 |
| CSS | \1F6A6 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F6A6} |
| Shortcode | :vertical_traffic_light: |
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What does the 🚦 emoji mean?
The 🚦 emoji shows vertical traffic light. It belongs to Travel & Places (ground transportation) and is used when talking about drove, intersection, light and signal, trips, locations or the weather.
How do I copy and paste the vertical traffic light emoji?
Tap Copy emoji on this page and paste it anywhere: WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, an email or a document. You can also find it on your phone's emoji keyboard by searching “vertical traffic light”.
When was the 🚦 emoji released?
It was approved in Emoji 1.0, in 2015. Today it works on practically every phone and computer.