Japanese “discount” button

The kanji 割 ('divide' or 'split') in a box. In Japanese pricing it means a discount, a percentage off.

🈹 appears on sale signs and in shopping posts to mark a markdown. Outside Japan few people read it, but it can serve as a sale tag next to 🛍️ or 💸.

Facts

Japanese “discount” 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 :u5272: or :japanese_discount_button:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “button”, “discount”, 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