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Registered Emoji ®️

An R inside a circle, meaning a trademark has actually been registered with a country's trademark office, not just claimed. In the U.S. and many other places, putting ® on a mark that was never registered isn't allowed, which separates it from ™, the casual signal anyone can attach to an unregistered name. Shorthand for clearing the paperwork.

What ®️ means

A dark grey 'R' placed with a circular outline of the same shade of grey. The ®️ Registered emoji signifies recognition by an official source of anything. Symbolizing credibility, trustworthiness, and loyalty, this emoji is a logo for anything that's legally recognized.

How and when to use it

®️ indicates legal recognition, something that recognized at a higher level. Thus, suggesting higher credibility and authenticity. If you're using this perspective metaphorically, do bring in the ®️. For example, "While building credibility, you're also building a benchmark ®️ Remember that".
Higher recognition gives higher visibility too; more people know, see and follow you. ®️ may also become a symbol of fame. For instance, "Why all this recognition when you can't recognize yourself? ®️".
While sharing social media profile pages, links, articles, information, and any other such format of consumption that is legally and officially recognized, you may include ®️. Like, "This ain't no BS, I checked ®️" or "They're apparently certified ®️. Good we got those doubts cleared".
The previous point essentially directs that ®️ might be the emoji-version of the 'blue tick' or the 'verified' symbol.
If you're texting someone that your car finally got registered or if you registered yourself into a particular association, community, job space, any information of this sort, you may use ®️.

Other Names

®️ Registered Trademark
®️ Recognition
®️ Legal Recognition
®️ Registered Sign
®️ R Symbol/Sign
®️ Registered Trademark Symbol

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › other-symbol
Codepoints: U+00AE U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :registered: GitHub
Keywords: R, registered

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.