🆘 SOS Button
Copy and paste this emoji: 🆘
Emoji Meaning
1
A blue square with a bold capital “P” at its center—commonly used to mark a parking area or zone.
2
The SOS symbol shows bold white letters on a red background — a straightforward plea meaning “save our ship” and signaling an emergency situation.
When you need help and want to get someone’s attention, use this emoji. It also pairs well with the warning emoji.
Also Known As
- 🆘 Distress Signal
- 🆘 Emergency
- 🆘 SOS
Apple Name
- 🆘 SOS Sign
Unicode Name
- 🆘 Squared SOS
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
🆘 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F198
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%86%98 |
| Punycode | xn--547h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 86 98 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83C\uDD98 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f198 |
| CSS | \01F198 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F198} |
| Perl | \x{1F198} |
| HTML hex | 🆘 |
| HTML dec | 🆘 |