Bright button emoji 🔆
Emoji 1.0 (2015) · U+1F506
What 🔆 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Bright button 🔆 is tagged with these keywords: bright, brightness, button, light.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing bright or brightness in the emoji search brings up 🔆.
Bright button 🔆 is one of 25 emoji in the media buttons subgroup of symbols (224 emoji), next to 📶 🛜 📳 📴.
Will 🔆 show on my friend's phone?
🔆 arrived with Emoji 1.0 in 2015. Practically every phone and computer in use today shows it.
How to type 🔆
Any emoji picker finds 🔆 when you search for bright button.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type bright button.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type bright button in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type bright button.
Codes for developers
Bright button 🔆 is a single code point, U+1F506. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F506 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🔆 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🔆 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F506"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F506} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%94%86 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 94 86 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🔆 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | bright button |
| Português | botão de aumentar brilho |
| Español | brillo alto |
| Italiano | luminosità elevata |
| Français | luminosité élevée |
| Deutsch | Heller-Taste |
| Türkçe | yüksek parlaklık |
| Bahasa Indonesia | tombol cerahkan |
| Polski | przycisk dużej jasności |
| Русский | высокая яркость |
| 日本語 | 高輝度 |
| 한국어 | 밝기 높음 |
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All symbols emoji →Questions people ask
What does the bright button emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🔆 "bright button" and links it with bright, brightness, button, light. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the media buttons subgroup of symbols.
When was the bright button emoji added?
In Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the bright button emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🔆 when you search for bright button.