What ⛠ means
It marks an entry restriction in a traffic-sign system.
ARIB is Japan’s Association of Radio Industries and Businesses. Its digital-broadcast character set includes traffic signs encoded as text; that is the documented setting for ⛠.
A 2007 proposal to add Japanese broadcast symbols to Unicode listed two source signs as “restricted entry (?)”; it left their practical difference unclear.
Technical sign vocabulary; use surrounding text to clarify the intended restriction.
If the font lacks ⛠, it may show a missing-character box or mark.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⛠ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ⛠
- Search it as
- restricted entry sign · ARIB restricted entry · restricted left entry · broadcast traffic sign
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⛠\26E0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.