🈶

Japanese “not Free of Charge” Button Emoji 🈶

Yu, the kanji for 'exists' or 'has,' becomes shorthand for paid when boxed like this. It's a heads-up on a Japanese restroom, coin locker, or parking sign that a fee applies where you might have expected none, the direct counterpart to 🈚, the free-of-charge button.

What 🈶 means

A bold and white Japanese kanji letter 'yuu' pasted onto a shiny orange squared block. This character is read as 'you' in Chinese.

The 🈶 Japanese 'Not Free of Charge' Button indicates payment for priced goods or the act of paying for anything. When purely based on the letter used here, it signifies the feeling of having and possessing.

How and when to use it

If you're crafting a quote or a post caption with the essence of being cost-bound or 'not free of charge', you could bring in the 🈶. For example, "You've got to pay the price, no matter if it's a pair of shoes or a load of bad karma 🈶" or "Work until expensive becomes cheap 🈶".
Not being free of cost creates a barrier in possession, thus stitching up a distinction between affordability. So, if you're talking about something that's unaffordable, then too, you could use 🈶. Like, "I don't you can afford to make any more errors like that 🈶".
However, the significance of the character used in 🈶, tells a whole different story; of ownership and possession. For instance, "Our possessions possess us 🈶" or "Your kids come through you, not from you. You belong to them, you don't own them 🈶".
🈶 could also be used positively - "I thank the universe for all that I have 🈶" or "That's the illusion, isn't it? You think you 'own' all these things when in reality, they own you in some way or the other 🈶".

Other Names

🈶 Not Free of Charge
🈶 Not Free
🈶 Paid
🈶 Own
🈶 Possess
🈶 Japanese Sign Meaning 'Not Free of Charge'
🈶 Squared CJK Unified Ideograph - 6709
🈶 有

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › alphanum
Codepoints: U+1F236
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :u6709:
Keywords: button, charge, free, ideograph, Japanese, not

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.