What ⛟ means
It marks an alternate restriction on large vehicles. In plain language, the road is closed to those vehicles.
The glyph comes from the symbol set in Japan’s ARIB STD B24 broadcasting standard; a 2008 Unicode repertoire review groups it with traffic signs and map symbols.
Technical and niche; without road context, ⛟ may read as a generic truck.
For a delivery update, ⛟ can be mistaken for a road restriction.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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3Questions people ask
1Why does ⛟ look different in different fonts?
It can: each font draws the truck in its own style, while ⛟ keeps the same road-restriction meaning.
How to type or find ⛟
- Also called
- black lorry · closed to large vehicles
- Search it as
- truck sign · road sign · closed to trucks · large-vehicle restriction
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.





