Meaning
A handheld electric flashlight, often used to represent needing light, searching in the dark, or literal tools.
Category: Objects
🔦flashlight
🔦 flashlight belongs to Objects. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:flashlight:
Keywords
electriclighttooltorchflashlight
What does 🔦 flashlight mean?
Depicts a flashlight or torch, typically shown at a diagonal angle emitting a beam of light. It is often used when talking about power outages, searching for lost items, or exploring dark places. Depending on context, it can also represent shedding light on a situation or needing clarity.
Often used for
- Discussing power outages or blackouts
- Searching for something in the dark or under furniture
- Camping, hiking, or exploring dark areas
- Asking someone if they have a light or flashlight
- Figuratively representing shedding light on a mystery or situation
Tone: Generally practical and straightforward. It can occasionally be used figuratively to mean 'illuminating' a topic, but it is mostly used literally.
Illustrative message examples with 🔦
These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.
- power went out, grabbing the flashlight 🔦
- anyone got a flashlight? i dropped my keys in the grass 🔦
- don't forget to pack a flashlight for the camping trip 🔦
- searching under the bed for my other shoe 🔦
- let me shed some light on this situation 🔦
Combos, text art & scenes with 🔦
How 🔦 flashlight looks
Appearance varies by device and platform — your system font draws the native version below.
OpenMoji artwork CC BY-SA 4.0 — see attributions.
🔦 flashlight codes for developers
Every format below produces 🔦 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.
| Emoji | 🔦 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+1F526 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🔦 | |
| HTML (hex) | 🔦 | |
| CSS | \1F526 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F526} | |
| JSON | \uD83D\uDD26 | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%94%A6 | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :flashlight: |
🔦 in other languages
SpanishlinternaFrenchtorcheGermanTaschenlampeItaliantorciaPortugueselanternaRussianфонарикJapanese懐中電灯Korean손전등Chinese手电筒LithuanianžibintuvėlisPolishlatarka
Source: Unicode CLDR
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