Meaning
A low battery icon, often used to represent depleted electronic devices or personal physical and mental exhaustion.
Category: Objects
🪫low battery
🪫 low battery belongs to Objects. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:low_battery:
Keywords
batterydrainedelectronicenergylowpowerlow battery
What does 🪫 low battery mean?
The low battery emoji depicts a battery with a red, depleted charge bar. It is often used literally to represent electronic devices running out of power, or figuratively to express personal exhaustion, burnout, or a depleted social battery. Depending on context, it can indicate a need to recharge either a phone or oneself.
Often used for
- Warning that a phone or device is about to die
- Expressing physical exhaustion or needing sleep
- Describing social burnout or feeling drained after an event
- Indicating a lack of energy to participate in an activity
Tone: The figurative use for personal exhaustion is widely understood but can imply a need to withdraw or end a conversation. It is generally casual and self-deprecating rather than urgent.
Illustrative message examples with 🪫
These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.
- my phone is on 1% 🪫 i'll text you when i get home
- 🪫 i'm so drained after that 3 hour meeting
- sorry for the late replies, phone is dying 🪫
- can't go out tonight, my social battery is almost gone 🪫
- running on fumes today 🪫 need a nap asap
Combos, text art & scenes with 🪫
How 🪫 low battery looks
Appearance varies by device and platform — your system font draws the native version below.
OpenMoji artwork CC BY-SA 4.0 — see attributions.
🪫 low battery codes for developers
Every format below produces 🪫 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.
| Emoji | 🪫 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+1FAAB | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🪫 | |
| HTML (hex) | 🪫 | |
| CSS | \1FAAB | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAAB} | |
| JSON | \uD83E\uDEAB | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AA%AB | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :low_battery: |
🪫 in other languages
Spanishbatería bajaFrenchpile faibleGermanschwache BatterieItalianbatteria scaricaPortuguesepouca bateriaRussianнизкий уровень зарядаJapaneseバッテリー残量低下Korean배터리 부족Chinese电池电量不足Lithuanianišeikvota baterijaPolishsłaba bateria
Source: Unicode CLDR
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