Japanese “acceptable” button

What 🉑 means

The kanji 可 ('can' or 'possible') in a circle. It means acceptable, allowed, or OK.

In Japan 可 appears on signs saying something is permitted. Chinese speakers use 🉑 widely online to mean 'OK', 'can do' or 'not bad', since 可 is the first character of 可以, 'okay'.

Facts

Japanese “acceptable” button 🉑 is an emoji in the symbols category, under alphanum. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :accept: or :japanese_acceptable_button:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “acceptable”, “button”, or “ideograph”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

symbols · Unicode 6.0