Japanese “application” button

What 🈸 means

The kanji 申 ('to say' or 'to apply') in a box. It stands for an application, as in a form or a request.

In Japanese 申 starts 申請 (application) and 申込 (sign-up). 🈸 can flag a form, a registration or 'apply here'. It is rare outside Japan.

Facts

Japanese “application” 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 :u7533: or :japanese_application_button:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “application”, “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