SOS Button Emoji
🆘
What does the SOS Button emoji mean?
1
A blue panel with a bold capital “P” at its center, regularly 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?
Download the SOS Button emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🆘 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F198
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
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 | 🆘 |