Warning

Your device cannot show this emoji yet. It still copies, and newer phones will show it.

Shortcode
:warning:
Unicode
U+26A0
HTML
⚠
CSS
\26A0
JavaScript
"\u{26A0}"
URL
%E2%9A%A0%EF%B8%8F

caution

What ⚠️ means

A yellow triangle with an exclamation point. It means caution, take care, something important ahead.

Labels spoilers, content warnings, NSFW links and urgent notices. At work it flags risks and breaking changes. Doubled up, ⚠️⚠️ is a louder alarm, sometimes used as a joke.

Facts

Warning ⚠️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under warning. 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 :warning:. People also look for it with words like “caution”.

Timeline

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

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. warning, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. warning, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. warning, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. warning, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014

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

symbols · Unicode 6.0