㊙️Circled Ideograph Secret

㊙️ Japanese “secret” button

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㊙️ Emoji meaning

Shh, don't tell! Secrecy, confidential, sensitive, and private.

㊙️ Meaning

Keep this for you! In Japan and China, the symbol is used to point to a secret.

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Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Japanese “secret” 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 + secret

Keywords removed

- “secret” - Japanese “secret” button - 秘

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ Japanese “secret” button

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

Emoji title renamed

Emoji title before

circled secret ideograph

Emoji title after

Japanese “secret” button

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ Japanese + ideograph + 秘 + “secret”

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

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- secret

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