What does 🈳 Japanese “Vacancy” Button mean?
A button with the kanji 空 (kū), meaning “empty” or “sky”, used in Japan on vacancy signs for hotels, car parks and rentals. As an emoji it says there is space available: empty seats, free rooms, an open slot in your diary. It can also joke about an empty fridge or an empty head before coffee. Its opposite is 🈵, meaning full.
🈳 Japanese “Vacancy” Button is an emoji from the Symbols category (letters & word buttons), added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010.
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🈳 Japanese “Vacancy” Button on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Japanese “Vacancy” Button looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Japanese “Vacancy” 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 :u7a7a:.
When was the Japanese “Vacancy” Button emoji added?
🈳 Japanese “Vacancy” 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 “Vacancy” Button. The underlying code (U+1F233) 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.