Bright button Emoji

Symbols

A yellow sun-like icon surrounded by rays, often depicted on a light-colored background. The design mimics the common screen brightness control found in smartphone settings menus or system toggle bars.

Usage Context

Used to represent increasing screen brightness, turning on a flashlight, or indicating high energy. People frequently use it to signal that they are feeling sunny, awake, or metaphorically 'turning up the lights' on a conversation. It is often paired with 🔅 or ☀️ to discuss display settings or weather.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, this icon was derived from the standardized symbols used in mobile operating system interfaces to help users navigate hardware controls without relying on text labels.

Details

Glyph

🔆

Unicode

U+1F506

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f506:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD06;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Symbols

Subcategory av-symbol

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository