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🚸Children Crossing Emoji
The children crossing emoji 🚸 carries the codepoint U+1F6B8 and has been in the standard since Emoji 1.0 (2015). It belongs to Symbols → Warning Symbols.
What 🚸 children crossing means
Caution and prohibition, most of it borrowed straight from real signage. ⚠️ heads a disclaimer or content warning, 🚫 and ⛔️ shut something down, and 🔞 marks adult material. ⛔️ is regularly mistaken for a stop sign, though the octagonal one 🛑 is a separate emoji filed with transport. ☢️ and ☣️ are rarely literal and instead label something toxic or best avoided.
Unicode tags this one child, children and crossing and files it under Symbols → Warning Symbols.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F6B8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🚸 | |
| HTML decimal | 🚸 | |
| CSS | \1F6B8 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F6B8} | |
| Python | \U0001F6B8 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDEB8 | |
| Rust | \u{1f6b8} | |
| Swift | \u{1F6B8} | |
| PHP | \u{1F6B8} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%9A%B8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 9A B8 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DEB8 | |
| Base64 | 8J+auA== | |
| Decimal | 128696 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🚸
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “children crossing”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “child”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f6b8and 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 🚸 children crossing emoji mean?+
🚸 is the children crossing emoji, tagged child, children and crossing. Caution and prohibition, most of it borrowed straight from real signage. ⚠️ heads a disclaimer or content warning, 🚫 and ⛔️ shut something down, and 🔞 marks adult material. ⛔️ is regularly mistaken for a stop sign, though the octagonal one 🛑 is a separate emoji filed with transport. ☢️ and ☣️ are rarely literal and instead label something toxic or best avoided.
What is the Unicode code for 🚸?+
children crossing is U+1F6B8. In HTML that is 🚸, in CSS \1F6B8, and in JavaScript \u{1F6B8}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🚸 emoji added?+
children crossing got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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 Warning Symbols in Symbols.
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🚸 children crossing.