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:secret::japanese_secret_button:U+3299㊙\3299"\u{3299}"%E3%8A%99%EF%B8%8FThe kanji 秘 ('secret') in a red circle. It means secret or confidential.
People use ㊙️ to mark a secret, a surprise plan or something 'just between us'. It has a playful, top-secret stamp feel. In Japan the circled character appears on documents marked confidential.
Japanese “secret” 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 :secret: or :japanese_secret_button:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “button”, “ideograph”, or “secret”.
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