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Prohibited Emoji 🚫

A diagonal slash through a red circle, the prohibited emoji is the classic 'not allowed' symbol. It's the same one stamped on no-smoking and no-parking signs, used broadly for anything banned or blocked — a rule being broken, a request being denied, a hard no.

What 🚫 means

A red outlined circle with a slash or oblique of the same color stretching from the top corner to the bottom. On some platforms, this emoji is shown with a white background.

The 🚫 Prohibited emoji signifies prohibition as the name suggests, along with related themes such as restriction and banning. Although usable in similar contexts as ⛔ No Entry, this emoji would suggest a legal tangent to the otherwise casual 'entry restriction'.

How and when to use it

Generally, 🚫 can be used as a way of responding with a big, fat, "NO" - "Not happening 🚫" or "I told you already 🚫". This applies even in common contexts of rejection - "List of those who didn't make it 🚫".
Prohibition represents an official ban on certain commodities. Hence, 🚫 may be used to refer to anything that is stringently banned or even a highly exclusive area.
Some instances for the previous point - "Staying home for the next few weeks, practicing self-quarantine 🚫" or "Kids Not Allowed 🚫".
🚫 could also act as an alert or an alarm for mostly negative or cautionary frameworks. For example, "Do not refresh the page before confirmation 🚫" or "No entry to the contest without registration 🚫".
If you're sharing newsworthy posts or reposts about a legal ban, 🚫 is a must. Like, "Alcohol sale banned in these states 🚫" or "Here is a list of strict DO NOTs this New Year 🚫".

Other Names

🚫 Prohibited
🚫 Banned
🚫 Not Allowed/Disallowed/No Entry
🚫 Ban/Banned
🚫 Restriction
🚫 No Entry Sign
🚫 Circle Backslash
🚫 No
🚫 Red Circle Crossed
🚫 Restricted

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › warning
Codepoints: U+1F6AB
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :no_entry_sign::prohibited: Discord
Keywords: entry, forbidden, no, not, prohibited, smoke

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.