Japanese “congratulations” button

The kanji 祝 ('celebrate') in a red circle. It means congratulations.

People who read Chinese characters use ㊗️ for birthdays, weddings, graduations and new jobs. Elsewhere it can serve as a stylish congrats beside 🎉 or 🎊, even when the reader only gets the red, festive look.

Facts

Japanese “congratulations” 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 :congratulations: or :japanese_congratulations_button:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “button”, “congratulations”, 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