bright button

Group: Symbols · Subgroup: Av symbol · Emoji 1

Keywords

bright
brightness
button
light

About this character

bright button belongs to the Symbols group and is encoded at U+1F506. It was added in Unicode 1.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F506
Hex: 1F506
Decimal: 128262
HTML: 🔆
CSS: \1F506
JavaScript: \u{1F506}
Python: \U0001F506
UTF-8: F0 9F 94 86

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

shuffle tracks button U+1F500
repeat button U+1F501
repeat single button U+1F502
play button U+25B6
fast-forward button U+23E9
next track button U+23ED
play or pause button U+23EF
reverse button U+25C0
fast reverse button U+23EA
last track button U+23EE
upwards button U+1F53C
fast up button U+23EB
downwards button U+1F53D
fast down button U+23EC
pause button U+23F8
stop button U+23F9
record button U+23FA
eject button U+23CF
cinema U+1F3A6
dim button U+1F505
antenna bars U+1F4F6
wireless U+1F6DC
vibration mode U+1F4F3
mobile phone off U+1F4F4

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.