What ⛌ means
Two lanes running into each other stand for a collision. Japan's digital broadcasting standard, ARIB STD-B24 (from the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses), defines small symbols that TV and data broadcasts use on road maps and traffic reports. Unicode 5.2 took in a batch of them so ordinary text could carry them too; ⛌ is the accident mark, next to signs for a closed road, a slippery road and other road conditions.
Outside Japanese traffic graphics it is rare. In a message it reads as "crash", "collision" or "paths crossing", or just as a more road-like X. It is a plain text symbol, not an emoji, so it appears in black and white in whatever font your device has, and some devices show an empty box instead.
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2Is ⛌ an emoji?
No. It is a text symbol with no colour emoji version, so it looks like the rest of your text.
Why do I see a box instead of ⛌?
Your font lacks it. The character is still there; a device with a fuller font, or another app, will show it.
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How to type or find ⛌
- Also called
- accident symbol
- Search it as
- crash symbol · traffic accident sign · road X symbol · U+26CC
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⛌\26CCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.