Japanese “bargain” button

What 🉐 means

The kanji 得 ('gain' or 'profit') in a circle. It means a bargain or a good deal.

Shops and deal posts use 🉐 to flag savings and value packs. Chinese speakers may read it as 'get' or 'obtain'. Outside East Asia it is rarely used.

Facts

Japanese “bargain” 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 :ideograph_advantage: or :japanese_bargain_button:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “bargain”, “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