High voltage
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- Shortcode
:zap:- Shortcode
:high_voltage:- Unicode
U+26A1- HTML
⚡- CSS
\26A1- JavaScript
"\u{26A1}"- URL
%E2%9A%A1
What ⚡ means
A yellow lightning bolt from the high-voltage warning sign. People use it for energy, speed, power and excitement far more than for actual electricity or storms.
"Fast ⚡ reply" or "feeling ⚡ today" set an upbeat, charged tone. It marks electric cars, quick tips and power-ups, and fans of Harry Potter use it for his scar.
For a weather storm, 🌩️ or ⛈️ is clearer; ⚡ reads as energy.
Facts
High voltage ⚡ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under sky weather. 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 :zap: or :high_voltage:. People also look for it with words like “danger”, “electric”, “electricity”, or “high”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.