Japanese “Open for Business” Button Emoji
What does the Japanese “Open for Business” Button emoji mean?
A bright orange square featuring the Japanese character for “work” in the center. It’s commonly displayed to let customers know the shop or business is open.
A small orange square or button showing a white kanji that reads "open" or "working". In Japanese, this sign indicates that an establishment is open for business.
This emoji is perfect for travelers — add it to a quick guide of signs and their meanings. When you spot this sign in Japan, you can confidently go into stores displaying it.
Also Known As
- 🈺 Work
- 🈺 営
Apple Name
- 🈺 Japanese Sign Meaning “Open for Business”
Unicode Name
- 🈺 Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-55b6
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Japanese “Open for Business” Button emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🈺 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F23A
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%88%BA |
| Punycode | xn--j2r |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 88 BA |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83C\uDE3A |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f23a |
| CSS | \01F23A |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F23A} |
| Perl | \x{1F23A} |
| HTML hex | 🈺 |
| HTML dec | 🈺 |
Tags: ideograph, Japanese, Japanese “open for business” button, open for business, 営, business, button, open
Category: Symbols
Subgroup: Alphanumeric