Dim button emoji 🔅
Emoji 1.0 (2015) · U+1F505
What 🔅 means
Dim button 🔅 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: brightness, button, dim, low.
Those words also drive emoji search: try brightness or button on your phone to find 🔅.
On the emoji keyboard, 🔅 sits with the media buttons (25 emoji) inside symbols, which has 224 emoji, for example 🔆 📶 🛜 📳.
Will 🔅 show on my friend's phone?
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015), 🔅 is old enough that all current phones, computers and apps show it.
How to type 🔅
To find 🔅 quickly, type dim button into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type dim button.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type dim button in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type dim button.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🔅 as one code point, U+1F505: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F505 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🔅 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🔅 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F505"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F505} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%94%85 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 94 85 |
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 | dim button |
| Português | botão de diminuir brilho |
| Español | brillo bajo |
| Italiano | luminosità bassa |
| Français | luminosité faible |
| Deutsch | Taste Dimmen |
| Türkçe | düşük parlaklık |
| Bahasa Indonesia | tombol redupkan |
| Polski | przycisk małej jasności |
| Русский | низкая яркость |
| 日本語 | 低輝度 |
| 한국어 | 밝기 낮음 |
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All symbols emoji →Questions people ask
What does the dim button emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🔅 "dim button" and links it with brightness, button, dim, low. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the media buttons subgroup of symbols.
When was the dim button emoji added?
In Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the dim button emoji?
To find 🔅 quickly, type dim button into the emoji search.