| Emoji | ㊙️ |
| Name | Japanese “secret” button |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+3299 |
| Category | Symbols |
| Subcategory | Alphanum |
| Emoji Version | 0.6 |
| Tags | button, ideograph, japanese, secret |
| Decimal Value | 12953 |
| Hex Value | 0x3299 |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | ㊙ / ㊙ |
The Japanese “secret” button emoji is a symbolic or functional icon — used for signaling, labeling, warnings, or abstract concepts (like direction, currency, or math) rather than depicting a literal object, person, or place.
Category context: The Symbols category gathers abstract icons — arrows, math notation, currency, warning signs, and keycap numbers — that function similarly to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Dingbats Unicode blocks, but rendered in full emoji color style rather than plain text glyphs.
Cataloged under Alphanum within the Symbols category, Japanese “secret” button is the 39th of 224 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 0.6 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+3299.
💡 Good to know: Rendering consistency for abstract symbol emoji is generally good across platforms compared to more illustrative categories, since simple shapes are easier to standardize.
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The Japanese “secret” button emoji is Unicode U+3299.
The Japanese “secret” button emoji is a symbolic or functional icon — used for signaling, labeling, warnings, or abstract concepts (like direction, currency, or math) rather than depicting a literal object, person, or place.