Antenna bars
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- Shortcode
:signal_strength:- Shortcode
:antenna_bars:- Unicode
U+1F4F6- HTML
📶- CSS
\1F4F6- JavaScript
"\u{1F4F6}"- URL
%F0%9F%93%B6
What ๐ถ means
Rising bars inside a box, the signal meter on a phone. It stands for mobile signal, connection, or being reachable.
People send ๐ถ to complain about bad reception, to promise a reply once they have coverage, or loosely to mean Wi-Fi. Phone plans and coverage maps use it too.
Before ๐ existed, many people used ๐ถ as a stand-in for Wi-Fi.
Facts
Antenna bars ๐ถ is an emoji in the symbols category, under av symbol. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :signal_strength: or :antenna_bars:. People also look for it with words like โantennaโ, โbarโ, โbarsโ, or โcellโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
2026
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.