Japanese “passing grade” button

The kanji 合 ('fit' or 'join') in a box. It stands for a pass, as in passing an exam.

合 starts the Japanese word 合格, a passing result, so students use 🈴 to celebrate a passed test or entrance exam. It can also suggest a match or an agreement.

Facts

Japanese “passing grade” 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 :u5408: or :japanese_passing_grade_button:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “button”, “grade”, 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