🔘

Radio Button Emoji 🔘

Drawn as a circle with a solid dot in the middle, this matches the physical radio button on old car and hi-fi sets. Pressing one of those released whichever button was already pushed in, and on the emoji keyboard it plays the same role: the one option picked from a list, or just 'this one' pointed at plainly.

What 🔘 means

A greyish black circular background with a smaller highlighted white circle at the center. The 🔘 Radio Button emoji suggests a mode of choosing between alternatives and the buttons in an old school radio, thus indicating choices.

How and when to use it

🔘 symbolizes the option you've chosen. Hence, signifying active choice or the ability to make choices. For instance, "Choose your words carefully 🔘" or "Every choice matters, don't be dumb next time 🔘".
In the same framework, you could use 🔘 to suggest available options in the first place! Like, "We have two options. Now, choose 🔘" or "I'm not an option, darling 🔘 You either choose me or you don't".
🔘 also represents the beginning of an audio note or a video (which can be used to arrive at any point in the same as well). If you're referring to such a beginning, you may use this emoji.
Some examples for the previous point are - "Tell me when to stop talking, I often lose track 🔘", "Ugh. Please. Begin to tell me about it 🔘" or "Just start the video from 2:15 🔘 and thank me later"
While informing your audience to choose an option in a survey or any other such format, 🔘 could be part of the caption.

Other Names

🔘 Select
🔘 Selected Option/Choice
🔘 Option Button
🔘 Options
🔘 Round Graphic Control Element
🔘 Audio Note

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › geometric
Codepoints: U+1F518
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :radio_button:
Keywords: button, geometric, radio

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.