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📶Antenna Bars Emoji
The antenna bars emoji 📶 carries the codepoint U+1F4F6 and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Symbols → Audio & Video Symbols.
What 📶 antenna bars means
Playback controls used literally and as metaphors alike: ⏸️ for pausing a plan, ⏭️ for skipping ahead, 🔁 for something happening all over again. 📶 signals reception or, by extension, being unreachable. Several of these are text-default characters that need the variation selector U+FE0F after them to appear in colour, which is why they sometimes render as plain black outlines.
Unicode tags this one antenna, bar and bars and files it under Symbols → Audio & Video Symbols.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F4F6 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 📶 | |
| HTML decimal | 📶 | |
| CSS | \1F4F6 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4F6} | |
| Python | \U0001F4F6 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDCF6 | |
| Rust | \u{1f4f6} | |
| Swift | \u{1F4F6} | |
| PHP | \u{1F4F6} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%93%B6 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 93 B6 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DCF6 | |
| Base64 | 8J+Ttg== | |
| Decimal | 128246 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 📶
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “antenna bars”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “antenna”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f4f6and Enter. - HTML — paste
📶.
How 📶 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 📶Apple
- 📶Segoe
- 📶Noto
- 📶System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 📶 antenna bars emoji mean?+
📶 is the antenna bars emoji, tagged antenna, bar and bars. Playback controls used literally and as metaphors alike: ⏸️ for pausing a plan, ⏭️ for skipping ahead, 🔁 for something happening all over again. 📶 signals reception or, by extension, being unreachable. Several of these are text-default characters that need the variation selector U+FE0F after them to appear in colour, which is why they sometimes render as plain black outlines.
What is the Unicode code for 📶?+
antenna bars is U+1F4F6. In HTML that is 📶, in CSS \1F4F6, and in JavaScript \u{1F4F6}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 📶 emoji added?+
antenna bars got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Audio & Video Symbols in Symbols.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 📶 antenna bars.