Symbols · Emoji 0.6
📶Antenna Bars Emoji
Generally, 📶 means someone is talking about their phone's signal strength. It’s a quick way to say “I have a good/bad connection” in a text.
The 📶 emoji shows a cell phone antenna with signal bars.
- Unicode
- U+1F4F6
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :signal_
strength: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📶 Antenna Bars emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 9 of them.
02 — Platforms
Antenna Bars emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F4F6. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Antenna Bars emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :signal_strength:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the antenna bars, code point U+1F4F6.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📶 Antenna Bars emoji
No picker to hand? The antenna bars can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Antenna Bars emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Antenna Bars emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around antenna bars for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 📶 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What 📶 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F4F6, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Difference
📶 vs 📡 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Antenna Bars
Code: U+1F4F6 · added 2010
Shortcode: :signal_strength:
Generally, 📶 means someone is talking about their phone's signal strength.
Unicode name: Satellite Antenna
Code: U+1F4E1 · added 2010
Shortcode: :satellite_antenna:
Generally, it means “sending” or “receiving” a signal or information.
11 — History
Where the 📶 Antenna Bars emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F4F6 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
📶 existed there as
KDDI au EA84, SoftBank E20B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Antenna Bars was approved as U+1F4F6 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 📶 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ