Radio button Emoji

Symbols

A grey, three-dimensional circular button with a smaller, darker, solid circle centered inside. It is designed to look like the interactive UI elements found in early graphical operating systems.

Usage Context

This icon is used in software interfaces to signify a single choice among a set of options where only one can be selected at a time. In casual texting, it is frequently used to highlight a specific point or to draw attention to a single status update, much like the ⭕ or ⏺ emojis.

History

Radio buttons date back to physical car radios from the 1930s, where pushing one station button would physically pop out the previously pressed one. The digital version became a standard UI element in early Windows and Macintosh operating systems, leading to its inclusion in the Unicode 6.0 standard in 2010 to represent these interactive controls.

Details

Glyph

🔘

Unicode

U+1F518

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f518:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD18;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Symbols

Subcategory geometric

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository