⚠️
⚠️ Warning Sign
Also known as: Alert Symbol
Unicode: U+26A0, U+FE0F
Description
A triangle with an exclamation mark inside, used as a warning or alert. This emoji is used prominently within social media platform BeReal's core time-sensitive "⚠️ Time to BeReal ⚠️" push notification. This notification is shown when being prompted to share a photo of themselves and their immediate surroundings, with this notification given within a randomly selected two-minute window every day.
Image Variants

3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:4.0
Keywords
warning
Shortcodes
Platform | Shortcode | Action |
---|---|---|
Emojipedia | :warning: | |
GitHub | :warning: | |
Slack | :warning: | |
Discord | :warning: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols -> Miscellaneous mark
Definition:
A triangle with an exclamation mark inside, used as a warning or alert. Warning was approved as part of Unicode 4.0 in 2003 under the name “ http://emojipedia.org/warning-sign/
Adjectives:
- Serving to warn
- Serving to caution or warn; admonitory
- Serving as a warning; monitory.
- Involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm
- Dangerous, involving risks.
- Dangerous, full of peril.
- Risky, dangerous, with the nature of a hazard.
- Full of danger.
Verbs:
- Warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
- Ask to go away
- To show an error.
- To show or contain an error or fault.
- To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
- To cause or contain an error.
Nouns:
- Condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action
- An error; a blunder.
- Deviation from what is correct
- A programming error that can cause the software to fail.
- A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
- An incorrect action not made deliberately.
- An error (1).
- Mistakes are avoidable occurances wherein a person unintentionally does something that causes an unfortunate result.
- Wrong or considered mistaken action.
- The word error entails different meanings and usages relative to how it is conceptually applied.
- A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention