Japanese “Free of Charge” Button Emoji
What does the Japanese “Free of Charge” Button emoji mean?
A vivid orange square featuring a Japanese character at its center — a symbol that denotes having none or indicating a lack of something.
This is an exclusively Japanese emoji — an orange square button that shows a kanji. It represents absence, lack, or simply “nothing.”
You’ll often see this icon used to mark free products — items with no price attached. For example, it turns up at charity events like concerts, dinners, and parties. Wouldn’t it be great to spot this symbol in grocery stores?
Also Known As
- 🈚 Lacking
- 🈚 無
Apple Name
- 🈚 Japanese Sign Meaning “Free of Charge”
Unicode Name
- 🈚 Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-7121
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Japanese “Free of Charge” Button emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🈚 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F21A
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%88%9A |
| Punycode | xn--2sx |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 88 9A |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83C\uDE1A |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f21a |
| CSS | \01F21A |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F21A} |
| Perl | \x{1F21A} |
| HTML hex | 🈚 |
| HTML dec | 🈚 |
Tags: free of charge, ideograph, Japanese, Japanese “free of charge” button, 無, button, charge, FREE
Category: Symbols
Subgroup: Alphanumeric