U+26A1 HIGH VOLTAGE SIGN
U+26A1 was added to Unicode in version 4.0 (2003). It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as thunder and lightning symbol.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+26A1 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “high voltage” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: danger, electric, high voltage, lightning, voltage, zap.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: ⚡︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
High voltage electricity refers to electrical potential large enough to cause injury or damage. In certain industries, high voltage refers to voltage above a certain threshold. Equipment and conductors that carry high voltage warrant special safety requirements and procedures.
High voltage is used in electrical power distribution, in cathode ray tubes, to generate X-rays and particle beams, to produce electrical arcs, for ignition, in photomultiplier tubes, and in high-power amplifier vacuum tubes, as well as other industrial, military and scientific applications.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9889 |
| UTF-8 | E2 9A A1 |
| UTF-16 | 26 A1 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 26 A1 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%9A%A1 |
| HTML-Escape | ⚡ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â¡ |
| alias | thunder |
| alias | lightning symbol |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 4.0 (2003) | |
| HIGH VOLTAGE SIGN | |
| — | |
| Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| High Voltage Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| High Voltage Sign | |
| High Voltage Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| High Voltage Sign | |
| High Voltage Sign | |
| High Voltage Sign | |
| High Voltage Sign | |
| High Voltage Sign | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| High Voltage Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| High Voltage Sign | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
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| Other | |
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| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| High Voltage Sign | |
| None | |
| Wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| High Voltage Sign | |
| U |