🈂️
A single katakana, sa, boxed in blue is shorthand for a Japanese restaurant or hotel's service charge, sabisu-ryo. It's usually disclosed right on the menu next to this mark; outside Japan it just reads loosely as any fee tacked onto a total.
What 🈂️ means
A katakana sa printed in white on a blue button-like square. The 🈂️ Japanese 'Service Charge' Button conveys the message by the name itself. It suggests service charges that add up to the total amount of any purchased service.
How and when to use it
- If you're sharing a post or repost about the services you or someone you know are providing, you may add 🈂️ either as a replacement for the phrase 'Service Charge' or as a stand-alone symbol. Like, "The service charge would be added 🈂️" or "🈂️ 15 Rupees/Dollars/Yen".
- You could also use 🈂️ while speaking of 'service' in a literal or metaphorical context. For instance, "Service to others is the rent you pay for a room here on earth 🈂️" or "That's the magic of giving. You do your bit, wholeheartedly, and leave the rest to the receiver 🈂️".
- If you're texting someone or typing a caption for a social media post or story about how someone 'was served' right, then too, 🈂️ could come in handy. For example, "Serves these ignorant guys right! 🈂️".
- Although it states 'service charge' and creates an immediate image of monetary return, 🈂️ may even imply the act of service, as mentioned in the second point.
- So, if you're sharing a heart-warming post about service, or if you truly believe in the mantra of service, this emoji could fit in as an inclusion in your post caption/story or your profile/bio, or both!
Other Names
- 🈂️ Service Charge
- 🈂️ Katakana Sa
- 🈂️ Squared Katakana Sa
- 🈂️ Japanese Sign Meaning "Service" or "Service Charge"
- 🈂️ The Act of Serving
- 🈂️ Service/Serve
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › alphanum
- Codepoints
U+1F202 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:sa:GitHub- Keywords
- button, charge, Japanese, katakana, service
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 “service Charge” Button or 🇦🇱 Flag: Albania?
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