Up! button Emoji

Symbols

A square blue button featuring the white text 'UP' accompanied by an exclamation mark. It is designed to look like a tactile indicator found on industrial control panels, video games, or elevators.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to signal excitement, signify a level-up in gaming, or draw attention to a specific piece of information appearing earlier in a chat thread. It serves as an emphatic counterpart to the ⬇️ or ⬇️ buttons when indicating movement or direction.

History

Included in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this character draws inspiration from the rigid, boxed labels common in early 8-bit arcade games and retro software interfaces where status markers needed to be bold and easily readable.

Details

Glyph

🆙

Unicode

U+1F199

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f199:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDD99;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Symbols

Subcategory alphanum

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.

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