Japanese “Prohibited” Button Emoji
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What does the Japanese “Prohibited” Button emoji mean?
1
A bold red square featuring a Japanese character in the center — a clear visual signal that something is forbidden or not allowed.
2
A red, button-like or square sign displaying a white character that means prohibition or restriction. This is a Japanese emoji familiar to native speakers.
If you spot this symbol in Japan, take care not to violate local laws. For example, it may be used to restrict movement on private property.
Also Known As
- 🈲 Forbid
- 🈲 禁
Apple Name
- 🈲 Japanese Sign Meaning “Prohibited”
Unicode Name
- 🈲 Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-7981
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Japanese “Prohibited” Button emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🈲 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F232
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%88%B2 |
| Punycode | xn--ckz |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 88 B2 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83C\uDE32 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f232 |
| CSS | \01F232 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F232} |
| Perl | \x{1F232} |
| HTML hex | 🈲 |
| HTML dec | 🈲 |
Tags: ideograph, Japanese, Japanese “prohibited” button, 禁, button, prohibited
Category: Symbols
Subgroup: Alphanumeric