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Up! button

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
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Specifications

Vendor Google
Category Symbols
Subcategory alphanum
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
up buttonblue squareabovehighexclamationlevelmarksignsquaredup!arcadegamingstatusindicatorretro

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 2.0SIL OFL 1.1Noto Repository

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