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🔦 Flashlight
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🔦 Emoji meaning
Shining a light in the dark! Truth, camping, night hike.
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🔦 Meaning
The flashlight illuminates dark areas. “There is no electricity“, “You're being X-rayed“, or “I know the truth.“ The emoji is also used to symbolize camping and night walks.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Light bulb vs flashlight; both light sources used for seeing in the dark or indicating an idea/attention.
Flashlight vs police car light; both beam light in the dark, used for searching or alert situations.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Flashlight” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ flashlight
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ electric + light + tool + torch
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
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- flashlight - torch
