Japanese “Vacancy” Button Emoji
What does the Japanese “Vacancy” Button emoji mean?
A blue tile displaying a Japanese character that means “empty” or “vacant.” You’ll often see it outside hotels to indicate rooms are available.
A small purple square button showing a white Japanese character that means “free” or “available”. It’s a useful sign to remember when you’re visiting Japan.
This emoji often indicates there are rooms available at a hotel and can also be seen at parking lots. If you spot this sign while in Japan, feel free to follow it — there should be space for you.
Also Known As
- 🈳 Empty and Available
- 🈳 空
Apple Name
- 🈳 Japanese Sign Meaning “Vacancy”
Unicode Name
- 🈳 Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-7a7a
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Japanese “Vacancy” Button emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🈳 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F233
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%88%B3 |
| Punycode | xn--grz |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 88 B3 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83C\uDE33 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f233 |
| CSS | \01F233 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F233} |
| Perl | \x{1F233} |
| HTML hex | 🈳 |
| HTML dec | 🈳 |
Tags: ideograph, Japanese, Japanese “vacancy” button, 空, button, vacancy
Category: Symbols
Subgroup: Alphanumeric