Three curved arcs fanning out from a point, the Wi-Fi signal drawn as its own emoji. It arrived in the 2022 emoji release, decades after the icon it copies became a fixture on every router and phone, and it covers internet access generally, a hotel with decent Wi-Fi, a router that finally works, a signal bar worth bragging about.
What 🛜 means
The universal wireless signal: curved bars radiating from a point. The 🛜 Wireless emoji (Emoji 15.0, September 2022) is Wi-Fi, hotspots, connectivity, and the modern hierarchy of needs' true foundation layer.
Strangely, the world's most recognizable tech symbol didn't exist as an emoji until 2022 — people used 📶 (cell signal) and hoped for the best.
How and when to use it
- The eternal question, now askable in one character: "🛜 password?"
- Remote-work reality: "Cafe has good coffee AND strong 🛜 — never leaving."
- And its absence: "Cabin weekend, zero 🛜 see you all Monday."
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › av-symbol
- Codepoints
U+1F6DC- Emoji version
- Emoji 15.0
- Shortcodes
:wireless:- Keywords
- broadband, computer, connectivity, hotspot, internet, network, router, smartphone, wi-fi, wifi, wireless, wlan
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 — 🛜 Wireless or 👷♂️ Man Construction Worker?