What does 🚫 Prohibited mean?
A red circle with a diagonal slash, the general sign that something is not allowed. Placed next to another emoji it negates it: 🚫🍺 for no alcohol, 🚫📱 for a phone-free dinner. On its own it says no, stop or not happening, from house rules to personal boundaries. It is the most flexible of the ban symbols and usually the first one people reach for.
🚫 Prohibited is an emoji from the Symbols category (warning signs), added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010. People use it in messages about entry, forbidden, no, not and smoke.
Example messages
🚫 Prohibited on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Prohibited looks on each platform.
More warning signs emojis
See all 13 →Prohibited emoji: questions & answers
How do I copy and paste the Prohibited emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🚫 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :no_entry_sign:.
When was the Prohibited emoji added?
🚫 Prohibited was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🚫 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Prohibited. The underlying code (U+1F6AB) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.