🈺
Ei, the character that opens eigyo-chu, 'currently open for business,' is boxed on a lit-up shopfront door telling passersby they can walk right in. Flip the sign at closing time and a plain kanji for closed usually takes its place instead.
What 🈺 means
A Japanese character meaning 'work' or 'business' printed in white on a rounded orange square. The 🈺 Japanese 'Open For Business' Button emoji symbolizes earning, professionalism, business, and reopening after a break too.
How and when to use it
- If you're sharing a social media post or story focusing on the reopening of your business; offline or online store, offline or online services, etc., you may use 🈺. Like, "After a massive break, WE'RE BACK in business! 🈺".
- "Open for business" may also be a spunky way of saying you, as an individual, is back from a break as well! For instance, "Look who's back y'all 🈺" or "Was out just for a bit, but back at it, stronger than ever 🈺".
- You may even use 🈺 as a reference to the return or comeback of something adversary and negative (negativity being the business here). For example, "She's back to make my life hell, AGAIN 🈺".
- 🈺 could also symbolize the beginning of business; profession, store, any business in general - "Kickstarting from the 5th of next month! 🈺" or "Available at all outlets from this month end 🈺".
Other Names
- 🈺 Ying (Chinese)
- 🈺 Business
- 🈺 Work
- 🈺 Japanese Sign Meaning 'Open For Business'
- 🈺 営 in White on an Orange Square
- 🈺 Squared CJK Unified Ideograph - 55b6
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › alphanum
- Codepoints
U+1F23A- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:u55b6:- Keywords
- business, button, ideograph, Japanese, open
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 “open for Business” Button or 🇷🇪 Flag: Réunion?
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