Japanese “reserved” button

What 🈯 means

The kanji 指 ('finger' or 'point to') in a green box. It means reserved or designated, as in a reserved seat.

In Japan the character starts 指定席, the word for reserved seats on trains. In chat 🈯 is rare; people use it to say a spot is taken or saved for someone.

Facts

Japanese “reserved” 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 :u6307: or :japanese_reserved_button:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “button”, “ideograph”, or “reserved”.

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