🚨 is the Unicode emoji POLICE CARS REVOLVING LIGHT (“police car light”), code point U+1F6A8 (decimal 128680) in the Transport and Map Symbols block, added in Unicode 6.0. In HTML write 🚨, and in UTF-8 it is the 4 bytes F0 9F 9A A8.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+1F6A8 |
| Decimal | 128680 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 9A A8 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | D83D DEA8 |
| UTF-32 | 0001F6A8 |
| HTML decimal | 🚨 |
| HTML hex | 🚨 |
| CSS | \1F6A8 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F6A8} or \uD83D\uDEA8 |
| JSON | \uD83D\uDEA8 |
| Python | \U0001F6A8 |
| Python by name | \N{POLICE CARS REVOLVING LIGHT} |
| Java, C# | \uD83D\uDEA8 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{1F6A8} |
| Go, C, C++ | \U0001F6A8 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %F0%9F%9A%A8 |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character takes two code units (a surrogate pair) and "🚨".length is 2. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | POLICE CARS REVOLVING LIGHT |
| Emoji name | police car light |
| Code point | U+1F6A8 (decimal 128680) |
| Block | Transport and Map Symbols (U+1F680–U+1F6FF) |
| General category | So: Other symbol |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | ON: Other neutral |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 6.0 |
Nearby in Transport and Map Symbols
- 🚠 U+1F6A0 Mountain cableway
- 🚡 U+1F6A1 Aerial tramway
- 🚢 U+1F6A2 Ship
- 🚣 U+1F6A3 Person rowing boat
- 🚤 U+1F6A4 Speedboat
- 🚥 U+1F6A5 Horizontal traffic light
- 🚦 U+1F6A6 Vertical traffic light
- 🚧 U+1F6A7 Construction
- 🚩 U+1F6A9 Triangular flag
- 🚪 U+1F6AA Door
- 🚫 U+1F6AB Prohibited
- 🚬 U+1F6AC Cigarette
- 🚭 U+1F6AD No smoking
- 🚮 U+1F6AE Litter in bin sign
- 🚯 U+1F6AF No littering
- 🚰 U+1F6B0 Potable water
All 120 characters: Transport and Map Symbols.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for 🚨?
- Use 🚨 (decimal) or 🚨 (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+1F6A8?
- F0 9F 9A A8 (hex), 4 bytes. In a URL it is %F0%9F%9A%A8.
- How do I write U+1F6A8 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u{1F6A8} or \uD83D\uDEA8. Python: \U0001F6A8.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3) and the Unicode emoji test data; HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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