Light Bulb Emoji
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What does the Light Bulb emoji mean?
1
A lone incandescent bulb with a silver base gives off a warm, soft yellow glow — largely used to suggest a hunch or the spark of an idea.
2
A pear-shaped incandescent light bulb — a classic that casts warm yellow light. It's shown with a shiny silver base that screws into a socket.
Emojis are used in direct and indirect meanings. You can send this emoji to a shop to ask to buy a light bulb, or use it in a chat to represent a new idea or a sudden spark of inspiration.
Also Known As
- 💡 Idea
Apple Name
- 💡 Light Bulb
Unicode Name
- 💡 Electric Light Bulb
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Light Bulb emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
💡 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F4A1
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%92%A1 |
| Punycode | xn--ds8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 92 A1 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDCA1 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f4a1 |
| CSS | \01F4A1 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F4A1} |
| Perl | \x{1F4A1} |
| HTML hex | 💡 |
| HTML dec | 💡 |