Symbols · Emoji 0.6
🈳Japanese “vacancy” Button Emoji
Generally, it means someone is available to chat or help. People use it when they're ready to respond to a message.
The 🈳 emoji is the Japanese vacancy button.
- Unicode
- U+1F233
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :u7a7a:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🈳 Japanese “vacancy” Button emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
02 — Platforms
Japanese “vacancy” Button emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the japanese “vacancy” button has been drawn in 4 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Japanese “vacancy” Button emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :u7a7a:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the japanese “vacancy” button, code point U+1F233.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🈳 Japanese “vacancy” Button emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Japanese “vacancy” Button emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Japanese “vacancy” Button emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around japanese “vacancy” button for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🈳 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What 🈳 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the japanese “vacancy” button lands changes how it is taken.
10 — Difference
🈳 vs 🉑 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Japanese “vacancy” Button
Code: U+1F233 · added 2010
Shortcode: :u7a7a:
Generally, it means someone is available to chat or help.
Unicode name: Japanese “acceptable” Button
Code: U+1F251 · added 2010
Shortcode: :accept:
Basically, it means “okay” or “yes” in a really casual way.
11 — History
Where the 🈳 Japanese “vacancy” 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 — U+1F233 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.
🈳 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E739, KDDI au EA8A, SoftBank E22B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Japanese “vacancy” Button was approved as U+1F233 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 🈳 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ