U+1F6A8 "🚨" Police Cars Revolving Light Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🚨
U+1F6A8 "🚨" Police Cars Revolving Light is a widely recognized pictographic symbol, officially named "Police Cars Revolving Light" under the "Transport and Map Symbols" block in Unicode 6.0, released in 2010. It depicts a red dome with a flashing or rotating beacon, commonly associated with emergency vehicles, alerts, or urgent warnings in digital communication. This emoji is frequently used in text messages, social media posts, and software interfaces to signify danger, police presence, sirens, or any critical attention-grabbing scenario, often functioning as a modern, visual shorthand for "alert" or "emergency."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F6A8 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Police Cars Revolving 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 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDEA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F6A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udea8 |