U+1F6A6 "🚦" Vertical Traffic Light Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🚦
U+1F6A6 "🚦" Vertical Traffic Light is a pictographic representation of a vertically oriented traffic signal, typically found in road and pedestrian safety signage. It is encoded in the Transport and Map Symbols block of Unicode 6.0, added in 2010, and depicts a tall rectangular housing containing three circular lights, usually colored red, yellow, and green, to indicate stop, caution, and go. This character is widely used in digital communication to symbolize traffic control, road conditions, or urban transportation contexts, and it is distinct from its horizontal counterpart, U+1F6A5, ensuring clarity in depicting standard vertical signal designs common in many countries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F6A6 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Vertical Traffic Light |
| Block | Transport and Map Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🚦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🚦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDEA6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F6A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udea6 |