Flashlight
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- Shortcode
:flashlight:- Unicode
U+1F526- HTML
🔦- CSS
\1F526- JavaScript
"\u{1F526}"- URL
%F0%9F%94%A6
What ๐ฆ means
A flashlight, or torch, sending out a beam. It stands for light in the dark, searching, and putting a spotlight on something.
People use it for power outages, camping and ghost stories. Figuratively it means shining a light on an issue or a person, like giving someone credit or exposing a problem.
Facts
Flashlight ๐ฆ is an emoji in the objects category, under light video. 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 :flashlight:. People also look for it with words like โelectricโ, โlightโ, โtoolโ, or โtorchโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2020
2021
2025
2026
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.