Japanese “open for business” button

The kanji 営 ('operate' or 'run a business') in a box. It means open for business.

In Japan, 営業中 on a shop sign means 'now open', and 🈺 echoes that. People use it for store hours, a launch, or to say they are open for orders or commissions.

Facts

Japanese “open for business” 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 :u55b6: or :japanese_open_for_business_button:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “business”, “button”, 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