Red, octagonal, with 'STOP' implied by the shape alone before anyone even reads a word on it. It's used for literal traffic signage and for shutting something down flat — an idea, a plan, a conversation that needed to end right there and then before it went any further.
What 🛑 means
A red octagon with a red or white border. The 🛑 Stop Sign emoji signifies 'Stop' as a command. It can be used in a formal and informal context, as part of a post caption, story, or even a text message.
How and when to use it
- If you've had enough of your best friend's taunts, you can use 🛑 as a way of saying, "Okay, bro. STFU before I break your face 🛑".
- You could also use 🛑 while reposting something that got on your nerves. For example, "Could someone please stop this woman from saying shit? 🛑".
- Overall, 🛑 largely has a negative connotation. Hence, it could be used with negational words such as 'No', 'Not happening', 'Nope', 'No Entry', 'No Trespassing', etc. For instance, "No, means NO 🛑 Get that into your thick empty skull".
- Even while commenting on posts that enraged you, you can use 🛑. For example, "NOPE, not for me 🛑".
- 'Stop' could also have a positive tone to it. Like, if the caption to the picture you're uploading has the word 'stop' in it, you can use 🛑 - "You could try all you want, but you can never stop me, k bye. 🛑".
Other Names
- 🛑 Stop
- 🛑 Octagonal Sign
- 🛑 Red Octagon
- 🛑 Red Stop Sign
- 🛑 Red Sign
- 🛑 Stop Light
- 🛑 Red Octagonal Sign
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › transport-ground
- Codepoints
U+1F6D1- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0
- Shortcodes
:stop_sign:GitHub · Discord:octagonal_sign:Slack · Discord- Keywords
- octagonal, sign, stop
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 — 🛑 Stop Sign or 🐖 Pig?
Runs with a crowd
🛑 keeps company in red emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.