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🆖NG Button Emoji

The NG button emoji 🆖 carries the codepoint U+1F196 and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Symbols → Alphanumeric Symbols.

What 🆖 NG button means

Squared letter and word buttons, most of them inherited wholesale from Japanese carrier emoji and never rethought since. 🆒, 🆕, 🆓 and 🆗 still see use as labels, and 🆘 is read as a genuine call for help. 🅰️, 🅱️, 🅾️ and 🆎 are blood-type buttons, a category that matters in Japan, where blood type is discussed the way star signs are elsewhere.

Unicode tags this one button, ng and files it under Symbols → Alphanumeric Symbols.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F196`
HTML hex	`🆖`
HTML decimal	`🆖`
CSS	`\1F196`
JavaScript	`\u{1F196}`
Python	`\U0001F196`
Java / C#	`\uD83C\uDD96`
Rust	`\u{1f196}`
Swift	`\u{1F196}`
PHP	`\u{1F196}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%86%96`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 86 96`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83C DD96`
Base64	`8J+Glg==`
Decimal	`127382`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

button
ng

How to type 🆖

Windows — press Win + . and search “NG button”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “button”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f196 and Enter.
HTML — paste 🆖.

How 🆖 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

🆖Apple
🆖Segoe
🆖Noto
🆖System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 🆖 NG button emoji mean?+

🆖 is the NG button emoji, tagged button, ng. Squared letter and word buttons, most of them inherited wholesale from Japanese carrier emoji and never rethought since. 🆒, 🆕, 🆓 and 🆗 still see use as labels, and 🆘 is read as a genuine call for help. 🅰️, 🅱️, 🅾️ and 🆎 are blood-type buttons, a category that matters in Japan, where blood type is discussed the way star signs are elsewhere.

What is the Unicode code for 🆖?+

NG button is U+1F196. In HTML that is 🆖, in CSS \1F196, and in JavaScript \u{1F196}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🆖 emoji added?+

NG button got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🆖 NG button.