🚫 Prohibited
🚫 Emoji meaning
Stop! No entry, restricted area, warning, denial.
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🚫 Meaning
So far and no further! The admittance to buildings or rooms is prohibited. Similar to a prohibition sign, e.g. no smoking.
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Commonly confused with
Color Variant
Stop sign vs prohibited; both red circular shapes used to indicate stopping or forbidding something.
No entry vs prohibited; both red circular prohibitive signs, road-specific vs general.
No smoking vs prohibited; both are red circle with diagonal line, cigarette detail can be tiny.
Same Shape
Prohibited vs no pedestrians; both show prohibition circles, detailed symbol may be hard to see.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Prohibited” 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 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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