Symbols · Emoji 0.6
🈶Japanese “not Free of Charge” Button Emoji
Basically, when someone sends you 🈶 in a text, they’re letting you know that something isn’t free. It's a direct way to signal that there's a cost involved.
The emoji 🈶 represents a Japanese button that says "not free of charge."
- Unicode
- U+1F236
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :u6709:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🈶 Japanese “not Free of Charge” Button emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
02 — Platforms
Japanese “not Free of Charge” Button emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the japanese “not free of charge” 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 “not Free of Charge” Button emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :u6709:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F236.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🈶 Japanese “not Free of Charge” Button emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F236 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Japanese “not Free of Charge” Button emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the japanese “not free of charge” 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 “not Free of Charge” Button emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around japanese “not free of charge” 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
Who sent the japanese “not free of charge” button and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
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 “not Free of Charge” Button
Code: U+1F236 · added 2010
Shortcode: :u6709:
Basically, when someone sends you 🈶 in a text, they’re letting you know that something isn’t free.
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 “not Free of Charge” 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+1F236 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
SoftBank E215.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Japanese “not Free of Charge” Button was approved as U+1F236 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