What does 🈸 Japanese “Application” Button mean?
A button with the kanji 申 (shin), taken from the Japanese word for an application or request. It labels forms, sign-ups and registration desks. People use it when they apply for a job, a visa, a course or a raffle, or to remind others that a deadline is approaching. It reads as a tidy, official-looking tag for anything that needs to be filled in and submitted.
🈸 Japanese “Application” Button is an emoji from the Symbols category (letters & word buttons), added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010.
Example messages
🈸 Japanese “Application” Button on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Japanese “Application” Button looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Japanese “Application” Button emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🈸 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :u7533:.
When was the Japanese “Application” Button emoji added?
🈸 Japanese “Application” Button was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🈸 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Japanese “Application” Button. The underlying code (U+1F238) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.