Japanese “no vacancy” button

The kanji 満 ('full') in a box. It means no vacancy, full, or sold out.

Hotels, parking lots and restaurants in Japan use 満 to show they have no room left. People use 🈵 for a fully booked event or a stomach that cannot take another bite. Its opposite is 🈳.

Facts

Japanese “no vacancy” 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 :u6e80: or :japanese_no_vacancy_button:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “button”, “ideograph”, or “no”.

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