Radioactive

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Shortcode
:radioactive:
Unicode
U+2622
HTML
☢
CSS
\2622
JavaScript
"\u{2622}"
URL
%E2%98%A2%EF%B8%8F

sign

What ☢️ means

The radiation trefoil. It means radioactive material, nuclear power, and danger.

Figuratively it means toxic: a radioactive person, a dangerous take, or food so spicy it glows. Science and nuclear-energy talk use it plainly. It pairs with ☣️ for maximum hazard.

Facts

Radioactive ☢️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under warning. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :radioactive:. People also look for it with words like “sign”.

Timeline

  1. 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. radioactive, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. radioactive, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. radioactive, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

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

symbols · Emoji 1.0