Indicating searching in dark spaces or at night
Indicating searching in dark spaces or at night.
Objects
🔦 Flashlight Emoji
The 🔦 Flashlight emoji depicts a portable handheld torch, commonly used for searching in the dark, camping, night lighting, or power outages.
QUICK FACTS
- Official name
- Flashlight
- Category
- Objects
- Subcategory
- Light & Video
- Unicode
- U+1F526
- Emoji version
- 0.6
- Unicode version
- 17.0
What Does Mean?
The 🔦 Flashlight emoji represents handheld portable illumination. It is used when navigating dark places, camping outdoors, experiencing electrical blackouts, or looking closely for lost items.
Quick Meaning
The 🔦 Flashlight emoji depicts a portable handheld torch, commonly used for searching in the dark, camping, night lighting, or power outages.
Use Cases
How People Use 🔦
Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.
Discussing camping equipment and outdoor gear
Discussing camping equipment and outdoor gear.
Messaging during power outages or storm blackouts
Messaging during power outages or storm blackouts.
Real Messages
🔦 Emoji Examples
Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 🔦.
“Searching for my keys under the sofa with a flashlight 🔦”
“Packed the flashlight for our camping trip 🔦”
“Power went out, using flashlights for light 🔦”
“Shining a light into the attic 🔦”
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Lookup Data
Names, Keywords and Search Terms
Search terms, common aliases, and lookup keywords.
Official Name
Flashlight
Subcategory: Light & VideoAliases & Common Names
- flashlight
- torch
- hand torch
Keywords & Search Terms
- flashlight
- torch
- light
- darkness
- search
- camping
- blackout
- beam
Developer Reference
🔦 Emoji Codes
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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F526Code points
U+1F526UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0xA6UTF-16
\uD83D\uDD26HTML decimal entity
🔦HTML hexadecimal entity
🔦JavaScript escape
\u{1F526}CSS escape
\1F526 Python string
\U0001F526Emoji Styles
See 🔦 in Different Styles
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Microsoft Fluent
MIT License
Google Noto
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
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FAQ
Questions About 🔦
Frequently asked questions about meaning, copying, PNG export, and Unicode data.
The 🔦 Flashlight emoji depicts a portable handheld torch, commonly used for searching in the dark, camping, night lighting, or power outages.
Yes. When licensed artwork is available, choose a style and download 1× (128×128), 2× (256×256), 4× (512×512), or 8× (1024×1024) PNG artwork. EmojiMint shows the selected provider, background, and exact pixel dimensions before download.
🔦 is used to represent Flashlight in daily life, work, tools, and visual descriptions.
The Unicode code point for 🔦 is U+1F526.
🔦 is usually the more general choice. 💡 Light Bulb is different because represents ideas and permanent electric lighting fixture bulbs.
Use the copy button on this page to copy 🔦, or select the emoji character directly and copy it from your browser.