🛇
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A "No Smoking" sign.
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Translingual
Description
A circle with a 45° diagonal line from the top left to bottom right inside it. The symbol is usually red.
Symbol
🛇
- Not allowed.
- 🚭 = a cigarette inside the prohibition symbol means "no smoking"
- 🚱 = a glass of water inside the prohibition symbol means "don't drink"; it indicates non-potable water
- 1992, Aladdin (1992 Disney film)
- Genie: So how 'bout it? What is it you want most?
- Aladdin: Well, there's this girl...
- Genie: Wrong! I can't make anybody fall in love, remember?
- 2000, "Death Is a Bitch", season 2, episode 6 of Family Guy
- Tom: Our top story tonight, the rules of death no longer apply.
- Diane: That's right, Tom.
- 2003, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", season 4, episode 18 of Futurama
- Signs on the door to Fry's room: "Fry's room", "No trespassing", "Stay out!", "Keep out Bender"
- Bender: I choose to not understand these signs.
- 2003–2008, episodes 1–5 of There She Is!!
- 2010, Toy Story 3 (in English):
- [The text below is written on a wet floor sign, in the scene where Woody tries to escape the day care for the first time.]
No running [A prohibition symbol with an illustration of a person running is on the wet floor sign.]
- 2014, "Devil", episode 8 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders – Part I, season 3 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- No littering. Maximum fine $500 or corrective work order.
Usage notes
It usually has a picture inside the circle to express what to prohibit. Names of this symbol in English: prohibition sign, no sign, no symbol.
Derived terms
- 🚭 (no smoking)
- 🚯 (do not litter)
- 🚱 (non-potable water)
- 🚳 (no bicycles)
- 🚷 (no pedestrians)
- 📵 (no mobile phones)
- 🔞 (no one under eighteen)
- Synonym: 18+
- 🕲 (no piracy)
- 🄏 (non-commercial)
