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🆘 SOS button

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🆘 Emoji meaning

Help, we're in trouble! SOS, signal, help, danger, emergency, rescue.

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🆘 Meaning

We could use some help here! International emergency signal in Morse code. SOS stands for “save our souls”. The sequence of letters calls for help in an emergency and can be found on emergency telephones or on lifebuoys.

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Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “SOS button” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6.

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ button

Keywords removed

- SOS button

In the release of Emoji 14.0 and Unicode 14.0 in 2021 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ SOS

Keywords removed

- sos

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ SOS button

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there were 2 changes.

Emoji title renamed

Emoji title before

squared sos

Emoji title after

SOS button

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ help + sos

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- sos

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