Horizontal traffic light

What 🚥 means

A traffic light turned on its side, the layout used in places like Japan. It means traffic, stoplights and waiting to go.

Traffic, driving and busy junctions are its everyday subjects. Some prefer it as a status signal, red, amber or green, for go or no-go decisions. In most chats it reads the same as 🚦.

Facts

Horizontal traffic light 🚥 is an emoji in the travel and places category, under transport ground. 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 :traffic_light: or :horizontal_traffic_light:. People also look for it with words like “horizontal”, “intersection”, “light”, or “signal”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

travel & places · Unicode 6.0