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

&#xD83D;&#xDD05;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Symbols

Subcategory av-symbol

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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