🈲

Japanese “prohibited” Button Emoji 🈲

What 🈲 means

The first half of the Japanese translation of 'prohibited' (kinshi); kin, printed in white on a red button-like square. Read as 'jin' in Chinese, the 🈲 Japanese 'Prohibited' Button emoji indicates forbiddance or a restriction.

How and when to use it

  • Anything forbidden has a strong sense of mystery attached to it. This means 🈲 may encompass that significance too. Hence, while referring to anything 'mysterious', this emoji could be an option.
  • Some instances for the previous point - "The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you 🈲" or "I like being a mystery 🈲 Sometimes its the only thing new I look forward to".
  • 🈲 is essentially the verbal and the Japanese version of the 🚫 Prohibited. Hence, you could bring this emoji into similar contexts as the symbolic emoji.
  • However, there are slight differences between the application. 🈲 ought to be primarily brought into contexts of forbiddance and not just mere restriction. For instance, "To forbid mistakes is to forbid learning 🈲".
  • You could also use 🈲 as a statement of terror and dread. Like, "God forbid something that terrible happens! 🈲" or "She absolutely forbids that 🈲. Don't even try".

Other Names

  • 🈲 Forbid/Forbidden/Forbiddance
  • 🈲 Prohibition
  • 🈲 Restriction
  • 🈲 Japanese Sign Meaning 'Prohibition'
  • 🈲 Squared CJK Unified Ideograph - 7981
  • 🈲 Kinshi
  • 🈲 Kin (Japanese)
  • 🈲 Jin (Chinese)

At a glance

Category
Symbols › alphanum
Codepoints
U+1F232
Emoji version
Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes
:u7981:
Keywords
button, ideograph, Japanese, prohibited

How it looks across platforms

Japanese “prohibited” button on Apple
Apple
Japanese “prohibited” button on Google
Google
Japanese “prohibited” button on Twitter/X
Twitter/X
Japanese “prohibited” button on Facebook
Facebook
Japanese “prohibited” button on Microsoft
Microsoft

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