Dim button Emoji
Symbols
A stylized sun icon containing a small, solid circle, positioned next to a downward-pointing chevron. It is designed to look like a hardware interface control for lowering screen brightness.
Usage Context
This icon is standard across mobile devices and laptops for adjusting display backlighting. It is frequently used in tech support conversations to help users troubleshoot dim screens or to signal that someone is lowering their presence in a digital space, much like the 🔆 high brightness button.
History
Added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the dim button was part of a set of UI controls meant to mirror the brightness sliders found on early smartphone operating systems, allowing users to toggle display settings directly through software interfaces.
Details
Glyph
🔅
Unicode
U+1F505
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f505:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Symbols
Subcategory av-symbol
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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