Police car light

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Shortcode
:rotating_light:
Shortcode
:police_car_light:
Unicode
U+1F6A8
HTML
🚨
CSS
\1F6A8
JavaScript
"\u{1F6A8}"
URL
%F0%9F%9A%A8

alarmalertbeaconcaremergencylightpolicerevolvingsiren

What ๐Ÿšจ means

A flashing police siren light. It means alert: something urgent, important or brand new.

Group chats use it to grab attention: '๐Ÿšจ news ๐Ÿšจ', 'spoiler alert', 'drama alert'. Creators use it for big announcements and drops. In work chat it flags an urgent incident, and anywhere it can sound a warning about something risky.

Facts

Police car light ๐Ÿšจ 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 :rotating_light: or :police_car_light:. People also look for it with words like โ€œalarmโ€, โ€œalertโ€, โ€œbeaconโ€, or โ€œcarโ€.

Timeline

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

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. police car light, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. police car light, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. police car light, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. police car light, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. police car light, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016
  3. police car light, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20182018

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

travel & places ยท Unicode 6.0

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