Symbols ยท Emoji 0.6
๐Free Button Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the ๐ emoji, theyโre offering something for free โ like a ride, food, or just their time. Itโs a simple way to say โno costโ or โdonโt worry about paying.โ
The ๐ emoji, also known as the โFree Button,โ is pretty straightforward.
- Unicode
- U+1F193
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :free:
- Skin tones
- No
01 โ Meaning
What does the ๐ Free Button emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 โ Platforms
Free Button emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the free button has been drawn in 4 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it โ iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 โ Copy & codes
Free Button emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation โ including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :free:.
All emoji copy and paste โIn your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the free button, code point U+1F193.
04 โ How to type
How to type the ๐ Free Button emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system โ and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 โ Download
Free Button emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files โ one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library โ
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 โ Combinations
Free Button emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around free button for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations โWant two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with ๐, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 โ Emoji Kitchen
Free Button Emoji Kitchen stickers
Google's sticker mixer has drawn 616 mixes with this one. Here are 12 of them. Tap any to open it full size.
Mix it yourself โ
08 โ In conversation
What ๐ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 โ Apps
What ๐ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
11 โ Difference
๐ vs ๐ถ โ what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Free Button
Code: U+1F193 ยท added 2010
Shortcode: :free:
Generally, when someone sends you the ๐ emoji, theyโre offering something for free โ like a ride, food, or just their time.
Unicode name: Japanese โnot Free of Chargeโ Button
Code: U+1F236 ยท added 2010
Shortcode: :u6709:
Basically, when someone sends you ๐ถ in a text, theyโre letting you know that something isnโt free.
12 โ History
Where the ๐ Free Button emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time โ U+1F193 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
๐ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6D7, KDDI au E578.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all โ Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Free Button was approved as U+1F193 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ๐ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes โ only the picture does.
13 โ FAQ