Symbols · Emoji 0.6
⚠️Warning Emoji
Generally, it means “be careful” or “pay attention.” People use it to highlight something that requires extra caution.
The ⚠️ emoji is a yellow triangle with an exclamation point inside.
- Unicode
- U+26A0 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :warning:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ⚠️ Warning emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as caution emoji.
02 — Platforms
Warning emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+26A0 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your warning 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
Warning emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :warning:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the warning, code point U+26A0.
04 — How to type
How to type the ⚠️ Warning emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+26A0 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Warning emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the warning 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
Warning emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around warning 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 warning 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 warning lands changes how it is taken.
11 — History
Where the ⚠️ Warning 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+26A0 U+FE0F 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
NTT DoCoMo E737, KDDI au E481, SoftBank E252.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Warning was approved as U+26A0 U+FE0F 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