Circled in red on New Year cards, wedding gifts, and graduation banners, this kanji shuku is Japan's formal congratulations. It's a stamp for the occasion rather than a note dashed off casually, and typed today it marks something genuinely worth marking, not just a quick nice job.
What ㊗️ means
A kanji character, read as 'i-wai' in Japanese and zhù in Chinese, printed and bolded in white on a red circle. The ㊗️ Japanese 'Congratulations' Button emoji signifies celebration, congratulations, appreciation, and acknowledgment.
How and when to use it
- In Chinese, ㊗️ (zhù) translates to a 'wish'. If you wish to use the aspects of hope, prayer, well-wishing and greeting in any context with this perspective in the background, bring in the ㊗️.
- Some instances for the previous point - "Happy birthday! May you have the most blessed year ahead ㊗️" or "Oh! How I wish I was there! ㊗️ I'm sure the show was fantastic".
- And from the Japanese POV, ㊗️ means 'celebration'. Be it a 'metaphorical celebration', a direct reference to a festive post, repost or text message, or the act of celebrating victories, ㊗️ is helpful.
- A few examples for the third use-case are - "Happy holidays! ㊗️", "Here are some of the best festive celebrations from across the world ㊗️", or "OMGGGG! That's amazing! We SO need to drink to this ㊗️".
Other Names
- ㊗️ Celebration
- ㊗️ I-Wai (Japanese)
- ㊗️ Wish
- ㊗️ Zhù (Chinese)
- ㊗️ Japanese Sign Meaning 'Congratulations'
- ㊗️ Congrats!
- ㊗️ Circled Ideograph Congratulation
- ㊗️ 祝 in White on Red Circle
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › alphanum
- Codepoints
U+3297 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:congratulations:GitHub- Keywords
- button, congratulations, ideograph, Japanese
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — ㊗️ Japanese “congratulations” Button or 🏎️ Racing Car?