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Traffic light horizontal

🚥 Horizontal traffic light

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🚥 Emoji meaning

Red light ahead! Intersection, stoplight, signal, stop, traffic, safety.

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🚥 Meaning

Be careful, my traffic light will shortly switch to red! Traffic lights regulate the traffic flow. They are meant to optimize and defuse danger zones. The horizontal attachment is rather uncommon in Germany, unlike in Thailand or the US.

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Commonly confused with

Direction Variant

Horizontal traffic light

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Vertical traffic light

Horizontal traffic light vs vertical traffic light; both control road traffic, orientation difference only.

Horizontal traffic light

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Horizontal traffic light vs construction; both used in roadwork or driving contexts.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Horizontal traffic light” 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.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ horizontal + intersection + stop + stoplight

Keywords removed

- horizontal traffic light

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ horizontal traffic light

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ light + signal + traffic

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