Japanese “free of charge” button

The kanji 無 ('nothing' or 'none') in a box. It means free of charge: it costs nothing.

It pairs with its opposite 🈶, which marks a fee. In Japan the character appears on signs for free items and services, as in 無料. Chinese readers know it as 'none' or 'without', so it can stand for 'nothing' in general.

Facts

Japanese “free of charge” 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 :u7121: or :japanese_free_of_charge_button:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “button”, “charge”, or “free”.

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