🈲

Japanese “prohibited” Button Emoji 🈲

Boxed in red, this is Japan's blunt no: the kanji kin, prohibition, posted under a ban on smoking, entry, or photography. It shows up on parking barriers too, wherever the rule needs zero ambiguity, and reads as a flat, no-negotiation stop for anything the sender wants shut down.

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)

The lowdown

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

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.