🈁

Japanese “here” Button Emoji 🈁

A red dot on a mall directory or evacuation map usually sits under this squared katakana for koko, Japanese for 'here.' It marks your exact spot on a floor plan the way a pin does on a digital map, and gets typed loosely now for pinpointing any location, physical or not.

What 🈁 means

A pair of white left-facing boxes designed with three sides, the fourth being the open side on the left. The button also has a tiny protruding stem on the right of the base side.

The 🈁 Japanese 'Here' Button emoji indicates a current place, as the translation suggests. This place could signify a destination or any other concrete space along with references to the metaphorical spaces.

How and when to use it

Since there isn't a button in English for the word 'here', 🈁 acts as a substitute for it when both, you and your audience understand the implication.
You may use 🈁 figuratively in post captions and quotes that involve both the word and the essence. For instance, "Your reality is just here and now 🈁" or "Here is the present 🈁".
You could also use 🈁 while directing or navigating your readers to a particular place either in your post or in the caption, like a CTA (Call To Action). Like, "Tap here for more info 🈁" or "Click 🈁".
Generally dropping the 🈁 into any context would immediately imply the steadiness of the place you're referring to.
Considering social media's wit at turning mundane aspects into profound innuendos and symbols (there's sarcasm in here), 🈁 would imbibe many interpretations, such as a pair of human breasts.
🈁 may even be a directional emoji, thus indicating a double right turn or a sense of curving into the 'right path'.

Other Names

🈁 Here
🈁 A Pair of Incomplete Boxes
🈁 Turn Right
🈁 Curving Right
🈁 Destination
🈁 Here Symbol
🈁 Japanese Word Sign Meaning 'Here'
🈁 Squared Katakana Koko

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › alphanum
Codepoints: U+1F201
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :koko:
Keywords: button, here, Japanese, katakana

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.