| Emoji | 🚦 |
| Name | vertical traffic light |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+1F6A6 |
| Category | Travel & Places |
| Subcategory | Transport Ground |
| Emoji Version | 1 |
| Tags | drove, intersection, light, signal, stop, stoplight, traffic, vertical |
| Decimal Value | 128678 |
| Hex Value | 0x1F6A6 |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | 🚦 / 🚦 |
The vertical traffic light emoji represents a place, building, mode of transportation, or geographic feature, commonly used in travel planning conversations, location-tagged social posts, or figuratively to signal a trip, vacation, or "getting away" theme.
Category context: The Travel & Places category includes buildings, geographic features, transportation, and sky/weather symbols — frequently used both literally (trip planning, location-sharing) and as visual shorthand for travel-related content and social posts.
Cataloged under Transport Ground within the Travel & Places category, vertical traffic light is the 193rd of 219 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 1 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F6A6.
💡 Good to know: Sky and weather emoji from this category are commonly used for literal weather updates in casual messaging, as a quick alternative to typing out conditions.
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The vertical traffic light emoji is Unicode U+1F6A6.
The vertical traffic light emoji represents a place, building, mode of transportation, or geographic feature, commonly used in travel planning conversations, location-tagged social posts, or figuratively to signal a trip, vacation, or "getting away" theme.