Meaning
A warning sign used to indicate caution, potential danger, or important alerts.
Category: Symbols
⚠️warning
⚠️ warning belongs to Symbols. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:warning:
Keywords
cautionwarning
What does ⚠️ warning mean?
The warning emoji depicts a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark, commonly used to signal caution or potential danger. It is often placed before text to highlight an important alert, hazard, or sensitive topic. Depending on context, it can serve as a visual heads-up in casual chats or a formal hazard indicator in technical documentation.
Often used for
- Flagging a potential hazard or physical danger
- Highlighting an important alert or system update
- Warning someone about a sensitive or triggering topic
- Indicating a technical error or system issue
- Signifying a spoiler or unexpected plot twist
Tone: While generally serious, it can sometimes be used playfully to exaggerate minor inconveniences. However, it is best to avoid using it for life-threatening emergencies where more urgent communication is needed.
⚠️ in real messages
- heads up, the floor is super slippery right now ⚠️
- ⚠️ spoilers for last night's episode below
- my laptop battery is at 2% ⚠️ might disappear soon
- warning ⚠️ do not open that link it's a scam
- just a reminder that the deadline is tomorrow ⚠️
Combos, text art & scenes with ⚠️
Related text art & kaomoji
⚠︎
⚠️☠️🚨
⋆·˚ ༘ *⚠️💣💥
⚠️❤️🔥🦅
🚨📢🔔⚠️
⚠⚠
⚠️⚠️⚠️
⚠️❤️🔥🦅𓅇
Warning ⚠️
⚠️👑⚜️
⚠︎︎
❗⚠️
How ⚠️ warning looks
Appearance varies by device and platform — your system font draws the native version below.
OpenMoji artwork CC BY-SA 4.0 — see attributions.
⚠️ warning codes for developers
Every format below produces ⚠️ — click Copy on the one your stack needs.
| Emoji | ⚠️ | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+26A0 U+FE0F | |
| HTML (decimal) | ⚠️ | |
| HTML (hex) | ⚠️ | |
| CSS | \26A0\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{26A0}\u{FE0F} | |
| JSON | \u26A0\uFE0F | |
| URL encoded | %E2%9A%A0%EF%B8%8F | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :warning: |
⚠️ in other languages
SpanishadvertenciaFrenchsymbole d’avertissementGermanWarnungItaliansimbolo di avvisoPortugueseavisoRussianзначок предупрежденияJapanese警告Korean주의Chinese警告LithuanianįspėjimasPolishostrzeżenie
Source: Unicode CLDR
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