Symbols · Emoji 0.6
🔘Radio Button Emoji
It usually means “select” or “choose.” People use it to show they’re picking one thing from a few options they've been given.
The 🔘 emoji represents a simple radio button or a small dot.
- Unicode
- U+1F518
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :radio_
button: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🔘 Radio Button emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
02 — Platforms
Radio Button emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F518 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your radio 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
Radio Button emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :radio_button:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the radio button, code point U+1F518.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🔘 Radio Button emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F518 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Radio Button emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the radio 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
Radio Button emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around radio 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: Radio Button
Code: U+1F518 · added 2010
Shortcode: :radio_button:
It usually means “select” or “choose.”
Unicode name: Radio
Code: U+1F4FB · added 2010
Shortcode: :radio:
Generally, when someone sends you 📻 in a text, they're just suggesting you listen to something – usually music.
11 — History
Where the 🔘 Radio 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+1F518 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
KDDI au EB04.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Radio Button was approved as U+1F518 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