Japanese “Congratulations” Button Emoji
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What does the Japanese “Congratulations” Button emoji mean?
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A red circle bearing the Japanese character for 'congratulations', most usually used to celebrate and praise someone's achievement.
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A circular red button bearing a white kanji character that in Japanese expresses "congratulations" or a "plea for happiness".
In Japan, people often add this emoji to one another’s greetings in messages. It’s less common outside Japan, but learners of Japanese may use it to give their messages a more local feel.
Apple Name
- ㊗️ Japanese Sign Meaning “Congratulations”
Unicode Name
- ㊗️ Circled Ideograph Congratulation
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Japanese “Congratulations” Button emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
㊗️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+3297 U+FE0F
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %E3%8A%97%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--bjz |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E3 8A 97 EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u3297\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \u3297\uFE0F |
| CSS | \3297 \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{3297}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{3297}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | ㊗️ |
| HTML dec | ㊗️ |
Tags: ideograph, Japanese, Japanese “congratulations” button, 祝, button, congratulations
Category: Symbols
Subgroup: Alphanumeric