🔅

Dim Button Emoji 🔅

A sun drawn with short, stubby rays, formally the "low brightness symbol" in the Unicode name. It's the control for turning a screen or light down rather than off, shown in phone control centers next to its opposite, 🔆 Bright Button, and it stands in for anything toned down, a mood, a room, a plan scaled back.

What 🔅 means

A yellow circle lined with a series of yellow dots, suggesting a doodled sun. The entire symbol is shown in a small and petite manner. Sometimes, it's orange and sometimes dots can be short lines.

The 🔅 Dim Button emoji indicates brightness reduction. Besides, it may also suggest that something or someone is dull or dim, apart from being an amazing addition to some of the most cliched quotes.

How and when to use it

While sharing personal posts/reposts with captions revolving the theme of 'brightness', 🔅 could be a beautiful inclusion. For example, "Don't dim my shine 🔅" or "Don't let someone dim your light just because it's shining in their eyes 🔅".
You could also use 🔅 as an alert or a warning to 'reduce brightness'. Like, "I don't say this too often. But don't watch this with full brightness 🔅". This works even by dropping in just the emoji (however the reader(s) ought to be well-acquainted with emoji for that).
As mentioned in the previous section, 🔅 also acts as a symbol for 'dullness'. For instance, "Everything alright? You don't seem as glowing as always 🔅" or "A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers 🔅".
If you're posting or reposting low-light pictures, low light photography; hacks, tips, basics, etc., then too, 🔅 is useful. Similarly, if you're giving feedback on some photos, you can use 🔅 to suggest that it's "dim" or that it lacks character (ironic, but each to their own).

Other Names

🔅 Reduce Brightness
🔅 Low/Less Light
🔅 Low Light Photography
🔅 Less Brightness
🔅 Decrease Brightness
🔅 Low Brightness Symbol
🔅 Dull Symbol

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › av-symbol
Codepoints: U+1F505
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :low_brightness:
Keywords: brightness, button, dim, low

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.