Symbols · Emoji 1.0
☢️Radioactive Emoji
Generally, the ☢️ emoji means “danger” or “radioactive.” People use it to highlight a warning or express concern about something potentially harmful.
The ☢️ emoji represents radioactivity and nuclear danger.
- Unicode
- U+2622 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :radioactive_
sign: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ☢️ Radioactive emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 1.
02 — Platforms
Radioactive emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+2622 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your radioactive 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
Radioactive 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 :radioactive_sign:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+2622.
04 — How to type
How to type the ☢️ Radioactive emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+2622 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Radioactive emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the radioactive 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
06 — Combinations
Radioactive emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around radioactive 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — 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.
11 — History
Where the ☢️ Radioactive emoji came from
It arrived with the 1.0 release of the standard, which dates the radioactive to 2015.
Radioactive was approved as U+2622 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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.
12 — FAQ