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🚯No Littering Emoji

Tagged forbidden, litter and littering, 🚯 no littering sits in Unicode's Warning Symbols group inside Symbols. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0 (2015) at U+1F6AF.

What 🚯 no littering 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 forbidden, litter and littering 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+1F6AF`
HTML hex	`🚯`
HTML decimal	`🚯`
CSS	`\1F6AF`
JavaScript	`\u{1F6AF}`
Python	`\U0001F6AF`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDEAF`
Rust	`\u{1f6af}`
Swift	`\u{1F6AF}`
PHP	`\u{1F6AF}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%9A%AF`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 9A AF`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DEAF`
Base64	`8J+arw==`
Decimal	`128687`
Introduced	Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Keywords

forbidden
litter
littering
no
not
prohibited

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How to type 🚯

Windows — press Win + . and search “no littering”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “forbidden”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f6af and 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 🚯 no littering emoji mean?+

🚯 is the no littering emoji, tagged forbidden, litter and littering. 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 🚯?+

no littering is U+1F6AF. In HTML that is 🚯, in CSS \1F6AF, and in JavaScript \u{1F6AF}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🚯 emoji added?+

no littering 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.

Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🚯 no littering.