📶 Antenna bars
📶 Emoji meaning
No service! Cell phone signal, Wi-Fi, telephone, contact, and resonance.
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📶 Meaning
My reception is bad, I'll get back to you later! Bar-shaped signal strength display. The more bars, the better the connection. As an explanation of why you did not answer or the telephone connection was suddenly interrupted.
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Commonly confused with
Direction Variant
Antenna bars vs clockwise arrows; both curved stacked shapes used in connectivity/loading contexts.
Same Shape
Prayer beads vs antenna bars; both vertical sequences of small dots or shapes, easy to mis-tap.
Antenna bars vs speaker; both used metaphorically for signal strength or broadcasting.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Antenna bars” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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