No Smoking Emoji
A crossed-out cigarette, the standard sign for a smoke-free area.
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Meaning & usage
What does the No Smoking emoji mean?
A crossed-out cigarette, the standard sign for a smoke-free area.
Plainly regulatory. Its second life is in quitting posts, where the sign becomes a small declaration rather than a rule imposed by somebody else.
How to use 🚭 naturally
Venue rules, health posts and quitting milestones.
Reaction symbols work like visual emphasis: they reinforce a word, rate an idea or replace a short response. Repetition normally increases intensity, but it can also make a message feel more performative.
From standard to slang
The history of 🚭
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, No Smoking was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A cigarette crossed out in a red circle. The cigarette is drawn lit with smoke, so the prohibition is legible even without the bar.
- Today
How its use evolved
Venue rules, health posts and quitting milestones.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🚭 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Whole building is smoke-free, including the terrace 🚭
Six months today 🚭
There is a designated area past the car park 🚭
When to use it
Using 🚭 clearly
Venue rules, health posts and quitting milestones. It lands as no smoking emoji or 🚭 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the no smoking emoji
What does 🚭 mean in a text message?
A crossed-out cigarette, the standard sign for a smoke-free area. Plainly regulatory. Its second life is in quitting posts, where the sign becomes a small declaration rather than a rule imposed by somebody else.
Is 🚭 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are no smoking emoji, 🚭 meaning, no smoking sign, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🚭 look different on another device?
U+1F6AD identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the no smoking emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🚭 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the no smoking emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🚭 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
Easily confused
🚭 compared with similar emoji
These sit close enough in meaning that people reach for the wrong one. Here is what actually separates them.
No Smoking or Prohibited?
🚫 forbids without saying what. 🚭 names the activity, which is why it works as signage and 🚫 needs a sentence beside it.
For developers
🚭 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F6AD | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🚭 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🚭 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F6AD | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F6AD} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%9A%AD | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F6AD
- Category
- Symbols & Reactions
- Also known as
- no smoking emoji🚭 meaningno smoking sign
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