Japanese “not free of charge” button

The kanji 有 ('have' or 'exist') in a box. Here it means there is a charge: this is paid, not free.

It is the opposite of 🈚, which marks something free. On Japanese signs 有料 means a fee applies. Chinese readers may simply read it as 'have' or 'there is'.

Facts

Japanese “not 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 :u6709: or :japanese_not_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