Symbols · Emoji 0.6
🔞No One Under Eighteen Emoji
Basically, it means “this is for adults only.” People use it to say something isn't appropriate for younger viewers or readers.
The 🔞 emoji is called “No One Under Eighteen.”
- Unicode
- U+1F51E
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :underage:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🔞 No One Under Eighteen emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
No One Under Eighteen emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F51E — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your no one under eighteen looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
No One Under Eighteen 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 :underage:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F51E.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🔞 No One Under Eighteen emoji
No picker to hand? The no one under eighteen can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
No One Under Eighteen 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
06 — Combinations
No One Under Eighteen emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around no one under eighteen 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 🔞 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Difference
🔞 vs ⛔️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: No One Under Eighteen
Code: U+1F51E · added 2010
Shortcode: :underage:
Basically, it means “this is for adults only.”
Unicode name: No Entry
Code: U+26D4 U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :no_entry:
Generally, ⛔️ means “no” or “stop.”
11 — History
Where the 🔞 No One Under Eighteen 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+1F51E 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 EA83, SoftBank E207.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
No One Under Eighteen was approved as U+1F51E 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