Japanese “Application” Button

Japanese “Application” Button Emoji

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What does the Japanese “Application” Button emoji mean?

1

A bright orange square bearing a Japanese character marks the designated spot where visitors can drop off their applications.

2

A square orange button showing a white character that means "application". This is how the symbol is read in Japanese.

You’ll most often see it in job listings where applicants are asked to submit applications. Surprisingly, the same sign is used in the Chinese zodiac to represent the monkey.

Also Known As

  • 🈸 Application Form
  • 🈸 Monkey
  • 🈸 Request
  • 🈸 申

Apple Name

  • 🈸 Japanese Sign Meaning “Application”

Unicode Name

  • 🈸 Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-7533

Download the Japanese “Application” Button emoji

Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.

🈸 Emoji Codes

Codepoints

U+1F238

Shortcodes

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For developers

URL escape code %F0%9F%88%B8
Punycode xn--uny
Bytes (UTF-8) F0 9F 88 B8
JavaScript, JSON, Java \uD83C\uDE38
C, C++, Python \U0001f238
CSS \01F238
PHP, Ruby \u{1F238}
Perl \x{1F238}
HTML hex 🈸
HTML dec 🈸

Tags: ideograph, Japanese, Japanese “application” button, 申, application, button

Category: Symbols

Subgroup: Alphanumeric