SOS button
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- Shortcode
:sos:- Shortcode
:sos_button:- Unicode
U+1F198- HTML
🆘- CSS
\1F198- JavaScript
"\u{1F198}"- URL
%F0%9F%86%98
What ๐ means
The letters SOS in a red box. It means help, an emergency, or a distress call.
In daily chat ๐ is mostly dramatic: help with homework, a fashion crisis, a group chat gone wild. It can also signal real trouble, so read the context before taking it as a joke.
Facts
SOS button ๐ 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 :sos: or :sos_button:. People also look for it with words like โSOSโ, โbuttonโ, or โhelpโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.