No Smoking Symbol 🚭

🚭 is U+1F6AD NO SMOKING SYMBOL, an emoji/text character used to indicate that smoking is prohibited. Representative copy checks for No Smoking Symbol include No smoking 🚭; Smoke-free area 🚭; Smoking prohibited 🚭; Policy: 🚭. They place 🚭 in Facility notices, Travel information, Policy messages, Map legends. For No Smoking Symbol, the encoded value of 🚭 remains stable even though platform artwork, color, and proportions vary, so surrounding words must carry any more specific meaning. This boundary keeps No Smoking Symbol separate from lookalikes, aliases, and broader concepts. Related forms reviewed for No Smoking Symbol are 🚬 — Cigarette; 🚫 — Prohibited; ⚠ — Warning sign. Their notes describe Smoking-related emoji, General prohibition symbol, General warning character. Before reusing 🚭 from No Smoking Symbol, watch for Using 🚬 where 🚭 is required changes the intended no smoking symbol or introduces a different notation; Dropping part of U+1F6AD while copying no smoking symbol into facility notices; Applying the wrong convention to no smoking symbol in travel information; specifically, presenting a unicode glyph as a compliant safety sign. The practical No Smoking Symbol style checks are: In facility notices, identify 🚭 as No Smoking Symbol and explain the exact role it performs before the reader relies on it; For travel information, retain the sequence U+1F6AD; do not silently replace 🚭 with the related form 🚬; When no smoking symbol appears in policy messages, apply this convention: Use a visible text label that states the hazard, prohibition, or emergency action; While preparing map legends, compare 🚭 with 🚫 and ⚠, then keep the version whose meaning matches the source. The encoded No Smoking Symbol alternatives are decimal 🚭, hexadecimal 🚭, and CSS 1F6AD. Keep literal 🚭 where UTF-8 is handled correctly. This page covers the Unicode no-smoking character 🚭. Legal signs may require specific colors, dimensions, wording, placement, and local regulatory compliance.