Lightning Bolt Emoticon

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Lightning Bolt Emoticon

⚡High voltageU+26A1Ready to copy

38 lightning items. Tap one to copy it.

The bolt and its storm 4

Lightning signs that are not emoji 10

Text bolts, faces and name wrappers 8

Thunder as a sound word 5

Lightning combos 11

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How it works

No emoji is named lightning bolt: Unicode calls it High voltage and files it with the weather. This lightning bolt emoticon page adds the bolts Unicode keeps outside emoji, text bolts, name wrappers, thunder words and eleven combos.

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Lightning bolt emoji copy and paste

High voltage, U+26A1, is the bolt. CLDR files it under lightning, thunderbolt and zap, and Unicode's notes on the character say thunder and lightning symbol. The two storm clouds are the only emoji with lightning in their names.

Bolts that are not emoji

Lightning sign and Thunderstorm sign have been in Unicode since version 1.1. Zigzag arrow means electrolysis in Unicode's notes, and Electric arrow comes from a data standard. Koppa is a Greek number sign, here only for its shape.

  • In a wrapper, type your own name over the word name.
  • 雷 is thunder and 電 is lightning or electricity, by Unihan.

Questions and answers

Is there a lightning bolt emoji?

Yes, under another name. No emoji is called lightning bolt; High voltage, U+26A1, is the bolt, and CLDR files it under lightning, thunderbolt and zap. It is the first tile on this page.

What is the lightning symbol in plain text?

U+2607, the character Unicode names Lightning, is the plain one, with Thunderstorm, U+2608, beside it. The zigzag arrow, U+21AF, is a third. All three copy as text, not as emoji.

How do you type a lightning bolt on a keyboard?

No key has one. In keyboard characters the nearest is a zigzag of slashes, which is a tile here; otherwise copy High voltage or one of the lightning signs from this page.

What does thunder sound like in other languages?

By Wikipedia's list: goro goro in Japanese, babakh in Russian, brrum in Catalan, dörr in Hungarian and grummel in German. Each is a tile here, in its own script.

All 38 lightning items

The bolt and its storm 4

  • Cloud with lightning U+1F329 U+FE0F. One of the two emoji with lightning in their names. Emoji 0.7.
  • Cloud with lightning and rain U+26C8 U+FE0F. Unicode names the character Thunder cloud and rain. Emoji 0.7.
  • High voltage U+26A1. No emoji is named lightning bolt. Unicode calls this one High voltage sign, and its notes add thunder and lightning symbol. CLDR files it under lightning, thunderbolt and zap. Emoji 0.6.
  • Light bulb U+1F4A1. Filed under electric and idea. Emoji 0.6.

Lightning signs that are not emoji 10

  • A peal of thunder, the Han character U+9706. Unihan defines it as a sudden peal of thunder. Mandarin reading tíng.
  • Electric arrow U+2301 Electric arrow. By Unicode's notes it comes from the standard ISO 2047, where it marks End of Transmission.
  • Koppa U+03DF Greek small letter koppa. A Greek sign for the number 90, by Unicode's notes, and no lightning sign: it is here for its zigzag shape.
  • Lightning and electricity, the Han character U+96FB. Unihan defines it as electricity, electric; lightning. Mandarin reading diàn; inazuma in Japanese.
  • Lightning sign U+2607 Lightning. The character Unicode names Lightning. In the standard since version 1.1.
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Lightning signs that are not emoji, continued

  • Thunder hexagram U+4DF2 Hexagram for the arousing thunder. Six lines where the trigram has three. Unicode names it the arousing thunder.
  • Thunder trigram U+2633 Trigram for thunder. One of the eight trigrams. Unicode's notes give its name as zhen.
  • Thunder, the Han character U+96F7. Unihan defines it in one word: thunder. Mandarin reading léi; kaminari in Japanese.
  • Thunderstorm sign U+2608 Thunderstorm. The character Unicode names Thunderstorm, one code point after Lightning.
  • Zigzag arrow U+21AF Downwards zigzag arrow. Unicode's notes give it the meaning electrolysis.

Text bolts, faces and name wrappers 8

  • -ϟ- A bolt between two dashes
  • /\/\/ A zigzag of slashes: a bolt in keyboard characters
  • ~~~ϟ~~~ A bolt across the sky
  • ϟ(>_<)ϟ Zapped
  • ☁↯ A text cloud and a strike
  • -ϟ- name -ϟ- A wrapper: type a name over the word
  • ↯ name ↯ The same wrapper with zigzag arrows
  • (o_o)ϟ Startled by a flash

Thunder as a sound word 5

  • бабах Russian (babakh)
  • ゴロゴロ Japanese (goro goro)
  • brrum Catalan
  • dörr Hungarian
  • grummel German

Lightning combos 11

  • Bolt from the blue Sun behind small cloud, then high voltage.
  • Charged up High voltage, then flexed biceps.
  • Count the seconds High voltage, then stopwatch.
  • Fast reply High voltage, then speech balloon.
  • Flash sale High voltage, then label.
  • Full charge High voltage, then battery.
  • Lightning fast High voltage, then person running.
  • Power outage High voltage, then candle, then flashlight.
  • Spark of an idea High voltage, then light bulb.
  • Storm front Wind face, then cloud with lightning and rain.
  • Thunder and lightning Cloud with lightning and rain, then high voltage, then speaker high volume.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-01 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). High voltage is U+26A1, Emoji 0.6, in the subgroup sky & weather; no entry is named lightning bolt, the two storm clouds are the only entries with lightning in their names, and CLDR files High voltage under lightning, thunderbolt and zap. Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt). Han definitions and readings are from the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). Unicode's own notes on a character are from NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). The notes call U+26A1 thunder and lightning symbol, gloss the zigzag arrow as electrolysis, trace the electric arrow to ISO 2047 and give koppa the value 90. The ages of U+2607 and U+2608 are from DerivedAge.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt). The thunder words are from Wikipedia, Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias, CC BY-SA 4.0), section Thunder. The text bolts, faces, wrappers and combos are this site's own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, and the Han definitions are Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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