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🈁 Japanese “here” button

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🈁 Emoji meaning

Highlighting, availability, presence, location, and meeting point.

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🈁 Meaning

What is this place called? Japanese written language for emphasis and as an eye-catcher, e.g. on signs. The sign means “here” (koko) and refers to location information.

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Japanese “here” button

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JPN 'here' button vs P button; both square symbols used on signs and maps.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Japanese “here” 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 + here

Keywords removed

- “here” - Japanese “here” button - ココ

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ Japanese “here” 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 katakana koko

Emoji title after

Japanese “here” button

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ Japanese + katakana + ココ + “here”

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