SOS button

Group: Symbols · Subgroup: Alphanum · Emoji 0.6

Keywords

button
help
SOS
sos

About this character

SOS button belongs to the Symbols group and is encoded at U+1F198. It was added in Unicode 0.6.

Shortcode

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

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F198
Hex: 1F198
Decimal: 127384
HTML: 🆘
CSS: \1F198
JavaScript: \u{1F198}
Python: \U0001F198
UTF-8: F0 9F 86 98

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

input latin uppercase U+1F520 Similar
input latin lowercase U+1F521 Similar
input numbers U+1F522 Similar
input symbols U+1F523 Similar
input latin letters U+1F524 Similar
A button (blood type) U+1F170 Similar
AB button (blood type) U+1F18E Similar
B button (blood type) U+1F171 Similar
CL button U+1F191 Similar
COOL button U+1F192 Similar
FREE button U+1F193 Similar
information U+2139 Similar
ID button U+1F194 Similar
circled M U+24C2 Similar
NEW button U+1F195 Similar
NG button U+1F196 Similar
O button (blood type) U+1F17E Similar
OK button U+1F197 Similar
P button U+1F17F Similar
UP! button U+1F199 Similar
VS button U+1F19A Similar
Japanese “here” button U+1F201 Similar
Japanese “service charge” button U+1F202 Similar
Japanese “monthly amount” button U+1F237 Similar

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.