🚸
What 🚸 means
A yellow rhombus, cut off and rounded at each corner, and printed with a black outline and a pair of kids (one older and one younger), holding hands and carrying what seems to be school bags.
The 🚸 Children Crossing emoji mostly represents a 'school zone' or a 'school crossing' sign. It suggests caution (on the part of the upcoming traffic), a sense of 'going slow', taking it easy, and being vigilant as well.
How and when to use it
- 🚸 could symbolize children leading the way because the rest of the traffic is at a standstill (aka the "adults"). So, if you're sharing posts/reposts with captions resonating with this ideal or even a text message of the same, use 🚸.
- Examples for the previous point would be - "Children reinvent the world for you 🚸", "Growing up is not the problem. Forgetting is 🚸" or "Children are the way forward 🚸Treat them as though they are capable of the wonderful people they're becoming".
- The kids in 🚸 are holding hands - which could be translated into care, friendship, and togetherness. Like, "Holding each other through everything since day 1 🚸" or "We're inseparable 🚸 Even with death".
- While sharing children/kids and school/schooling related content, you may add 🚸; this works for informative posts, fun reposts, kids activity posts, or even programs and shows that are purely for children.
Other Names
- 🚸 Children Crossing Sign
- 🚸 School Zone
- 🚸 Traffic Signal
- 🚸 Stop. Children Crossing.
- 🚸 Kids Crossing
- 🚸 School Children Crossing
- 🚸 Children Walking Hand in Hand
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › warning
- Codepoints
U+1F6B8- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:children_crossing:- Keywords
- child, children, crossing, pedestrian, traffic
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🚸 Children Crossing or 🧑🦽➡️ Person in Manual Wheelchair: Facing Right?