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Translingual
A "No Smoking" sign.
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! [A prohibition symbol with a heart appears on Genie's chest, apparently meaning "no love".] I can't make anybody fall in love, remember?
- 2000, "Death Is a Bitch", season 2, episode 6 of Family Guy
- [Tom and Diane are news anchors on TV.]
- Tom: Our top story tonight, the rules of death no longer apply.
- Diane: That's right, Tom.
- [On the background, there is a prohibition symbol with a scythe, apparently meaning "no death".]
- 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"
- [One of the signs is a prohibition symbol with Bender's face, apparently meaning "no Bender".]
- Bender: I choose to not understand these signs. [Bender enters Fry's room]
- 2003–2008, episodes 1–5 of There She Is!!
- [In multiple scenes depicting prejudice against interspecies cat/rabbit relationships, a prohibition symbol with a heart and the faces of a cat and a rabbit appears, apparently meaning "no love between cats and rabbits".]
- 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
- [A guard accuses Jojo and his friends of littering the street. A sign has a prohibition symbol with a hand throwing a piece of paper on the ground. The text below is written on the sign, in English.]
- 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
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