What ⛗ means
It belongs to a Japanese digital-broadcasting symbol set.
ARIB, Japan’s broadcast standards body, lists it in STD-B24, a standard for digital-TV data, as “two-way traffic 2.” The standard’s multimedia-coding framework followed a Japanese government digital-broadcasting report dated July 21, 1999.
Is ⛗ an emoji?
No. It is a text character drawn by a font.
Its outline can vary with the font; it is not a vendor-specific emoji design.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Black Two-Way Left Way Traffic
⛖ is the black counterpart in the same ARIB STD-B24 traffic-sign group; Unicode also identifies it as a two-way-traffic sign for left-side traffic.
Alternate One-Way Left Way Traffic
The alternate one-way traffic sign from the same ARIB left-traffic group: one direction at a time instead of both.
Combination ideas
2Two-way traffic ahead, keep left
Cars pass in both directions on this road
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
- two-way traffic sign · left-side traffic · ARIB traffic symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⛗CSS
\26D7Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⛗
HTML hex
⛗
CSS content
content: "\26D7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9B%97
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.