Very Heavy Solidus refers to a proposed or suggested emoji-like symbol depicting a thick, diagonal forward slash, intended to read as a stronger, more emphatic version of the ordinary solidus (/). Around the mid‑2010s emoji expansion era, enthusiasts occasionally floated the idea in forums and informal discussion threads as a quick visual for negation, opposition, or a hard “no,” without resorting to the full prohibition sign. Supporters imagined it as a compact way to signal cancel, strike-out, or either/or in headlines, UI, and chat, drawing on how slashes are already used in ratios, URLs, and fandom pairings. Despite this interest, it never became an officially approved emoji, as it overlapped heavily with existing text characters and did not meet Unicode’s preference for distinctly pictographic symbols.
Some concept mockups portrayed it as a bold, 45‑degree bar with rounded ends—sometimes pure black or charcoal, other times a glossy red stripe reminiscent of the slash inside the prohibition emoji. On Apple-style renderings, people imagined a slightly shaded, high‑contrast diagonal with subtle highlights, while other platforms might have favored a flat, geometric stroke matching UI icon weights. The intended meanings ranged from simple separation or “A/B” choice to stronger cues like cancel, not allowed, or “against,” and even meme-flavored shorthand for a hard pass. Ultimately, Unicode already encodes multiple slash-like characters (e.g., fraction slash and division slash), and platforms provide the 🚫 prohibition sign, so a standalone Very Heavy Solidus was seen as redundant and prone to confusion. It remains a niche idea referenced in symbol wishlists and typographic conversations rather than an approved emoji.
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This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.
