🔦 Flashlight

Emoji Meaning

An everyday flashlight (electric torch), as used when the power goes out, camping, or telling scary stories. Generally depicted at a 45° angle as a gray and black device with a switch, shown illuminated on many platforms.

Used for various content concerning and senses of light and lighting (e.g., spotlight).

Google’s flashlight is orange.

Flashlight was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Electric Torch” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

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