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⚡️High Voltage Emoji
The high voltage emoji ⚡️ carries the codepoint U+26A1 U+FE0F and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Travel & Places → Weather.
What ⚡️ high voltage means
Weather doubles as mood throughout. 🔥 long ago stopped meaning fire and now means excellent; 🌊 and ⚡ intensify rather than describe; 🌈 reads as LGBTQ+ pride at least as often as weather. Unicode encodes all eight lunar phases as separate characters, plus four moons with faces, and 🌚 is used mainly for deadpan mischief.
Unicode tags this one danger, electric and electricity and files it under Travel & Places → Weather.
Copy variants
high voltage carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How ⚡️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- ⚡U+26A1high voltage
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+26A1 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ⚡️ | |
| HTML decimal | ⚡️ | |
| CSS | \26A1\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{26A1}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U000026A1\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u26A1\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{26a1}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{26A1}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{26A1}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%9A%A1%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9A A1 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26A1 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4pqh77iP | |
| Decimal | 9889 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type ⚡️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “high voltage”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “danger”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type26a1and 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 ⚡️ high voltage emoji mean?+
⚡️ is the high voltage emoji, tagged danger, electric and electricity. Weather doubles as mood throughout. 🔥 long ago stopped meaning fire and now means excellent; 🌊 and ⚡ intensify rather than describe; 🌈 reads as LGBTQ+ pride at least as often as weather. Unicode encodes all eight lunar phases as separate characters, plus four moons with faces, and 🌚 is used mainly for deadpan mischief.
What is the Unicode code for ⚡️?+
high voltage is U+26A1 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⚡️, in CSS \26A1\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{26A1}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ⚡️ emoji added?+
high voltage 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 Weather in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ⚡️ high voltage.