Symbols · Emoji 0.6
🈵Japanese “no Vacancy” Button Emoji
Generally, it means something is completely full or occupied. People use it to indicate that they don't have space or time for something.
The 🈵 emoji is the Japanese "No Vacancy" button.
- Unicode
- U+1F235
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :u6e80:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🈵 Japanese “no Vacancy” Button emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Japanese “no Vacancy” Button emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the japanese “no vacancy” button as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Japanese “no Vacancy” Button emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :u6e80:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the japanese “no vacancy” button, code point U+1F235.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🈵 Japanese “no 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 “no 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 “no Vacancy” Button emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around japanese “no 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 🈵 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F235, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Difference
🈵 vs 🔰 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Japanese “no Vacancy” Button
Code: U+1F235 · added 2010
Shortcode: :u6e80:
Generally, it means something is completely full or occupied.
Unicode name: Japanese Symbol For Beginner
Code: U+1F530 · added 2010
Shortcode: :beginner:
Generally, it means “beginner” or “new to something.”
11 — History
Where the 🈵 Japanese “no 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+1F235 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 E73B, KDDI au EA89, SoftBank E22A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Japanese “no Vacancy” Button was approved as U+1F235 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