CL Button Emoji
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What does the CL Button emoji mean?
1
A vivid red square with large, centered "C" and "L" letters — the nostalgic icon from older phones that marked the "Clear" function.
2
A red square stamped with white letters "CL" — short for "CLEAR". This button sat on older push-button phones and was used to clear text while composing a message.
In chats and messages, this icon is often used to mean "delete" or to "clean up" something. As with any emoji, its exact meaning can change depending on the context.
Also Known As
- 🆑 Clear
- 🆑 Clear Button
Apple Name
- 🆑 CL Sign
Unicode Name
- 🆑 Squared CL
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the CL Button emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🆑 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F191
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%86%91 |
| Punycode | xn--y47h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 86 91 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83C\uDD91 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f191 |
| CSS | \01F191 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F191} |
| Perl | \x{1F191} |
| HTML hex | 🆑 |
| HTML dec | 🆑 |