Symbols · Emoji 0.6
🈴Japanese “passing Grade” Button Emoji
Generally, it means “good job!” or “you did it!”
The 🈴 emoji is the Japanese Passing Grade Button.
- Unicode
- U+1F234
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :u5408:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🈴 Japanese “passing Grade” Button emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
02 — Platforms
Japanese “passing Grade” Button emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F234 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your japanese “passing grade” button looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Japanese “passing Grade” 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 :u5408:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the japanese “passing grade” button, code point U+1F234.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🈴 Japanese “passing Grade” Button emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F234 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Japanese “passing Grade” Button emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the japanese “passing grade” button as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Japanese “passing Grade” Button emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around japanese “passing grade” 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 🈴 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.
10 — Difference
🈴 vs 🉑 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Japanese “passing Grade” Button
Code: U+1F234 · added 2010
Shortcode: :u5408:
Generally, it means “good job!”
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 “passing Grade” 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+1F234 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 E73A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Japanese “passing Grade” Button was approved as U+1F234 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