U+1F6AF "🚯" Do Not Litter Symbol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🚯
U+1F6AF "🚯" Do Not Litter Symbol is a pictorial representation of a person in the act of dropping a piece of trash into a bin, but with a prominent red circle and diagonal slash overlaid across the figure to indicate prohibition. This symbol is commonly used in digital communication, signage, and public awareness campaigns to encourage proper waste disposal and discourage littering in public spaces. It belongs to the Transport and Map Symbols block of Unicode, designed to convey a clear, universally understood message about environmental responsibility and civic cleanliness. The character visually reinforces the idea of keeping surroundings tidy by forbidding the improper discarding of refuse.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F6AF |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Do Not Litter Symbol |
| 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 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDEAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F6AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udeaf |