Travel & Places · Emoji 3.0
🛑Stop Sign Emoji
Generally, 🛑 means "stop." People use it to tell someone to cease what they’re doing in a text.
The 🛑 emoji looks like a red stop sign.
- Unicode
- U+1F6D1
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :octagonal_
sign: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🛑 Stop Sign emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
02 — Platforms
Stop Sign emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F6D1 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your stop sign 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
Stop Sign 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 :octagonal_sign:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F6D1.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🛑 Stop Sign emoji
No picker to hand? The stop sign can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Stop Sign emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the stop sign as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Stop Sign emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around stop sign 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 with 🛑, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🛑 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the stop sign and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 🛑 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the stop sign lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
🛑 vs 🚏 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Stop Sign
Code: U+1F6D1 · added 2016
Shortcode: :octagonal_sign:
Generally, 🛑 means "stop."
Unicode name: Bus Stop
Code: U+1F68F · added 2010
Shortcode: :busstop:
Generally, it just means a bus stop.
12 — History
Where the 🛑 Stop Sign emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 3.0, the stop sign has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 10.
Same character every time — U+1F6D1 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.
Stop Sign was approved as U+1F6D1 and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.
13 — FAQ