📖 Emojipedix

FREE Button 🆓

Added in Emoji 0.6 · Symbols Alphanumeric Symbols

Codepoint U+1F193
Shortcode :free:
Version Emoji 0.6

Meaning

The FREE button displays a vibrant green square with white capital letters "FREE" prominently centered, using the same button badge format as other alphanum symbols. The green color distinctly separates it from the red blood type variants and blue COOL button, with the hue traditionally associated with positivity, money, and opportunity.

This emoji serves practical purposes in commercial or promotional contexts—announcing free offers, products, or services. Someone might drop it in a message about a free event, a no-cost promotion, or when celebrating that they've acquired something without expense. Beyond literal "free" references, it can humorously indicate that something is freely available or unrestricted. In group chats, it occasionally appears when sharing good news about complimentary opportunities or deals.

The bright green background makes it instantly recognizable and thematically appropriate, as green has long represented money, savings, and value in Western visual language. Like other button emoji, it originated in Japanese mobile design but never achieved widespread adoption in everyday Western messaging. Its utilitarian nature means it appears most frequently in commercial, promotional, or deal-sharing contexts rather than casual conversation. Despite niche usage, it remains a functional symbol for anyone wanting to highlight something cost-free.

Common Uses

  • Announcing free offers or promotional deals
  • Highlighting no-cost opportunities or events
  • Marking something as freely available

Popular Combos

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Did You Know?

The green color choice for the FREE button aligns with international conventions associating green with money, value, and savings—making it the most thematically intuitive button emoji.

Keywords

button free

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Technical Reference

Platform Shortcodes

GitHub :free:
Slack :free:
Discord :free:

Developer Codes

HTML (decimal)
🆓
HTML (hex)
🆓
CSS
\1F193
JavaScript
\uD83C\uDD93
Python
\U0001F193
Java
\uD83C\uDD93
Perl
\x{1F193}
PHP / Ruby
\x{1F193}
Punycode
xn--2qab
URL Encoded
%F0%9F%86%93
UTF-8 Bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x86 0x93

🆓 in 28 languages

Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.

Language Name
Bengali বর্গক্ষেত্রের মধ্যে ফ্রী
Chinese (Simplified) 免费按钮
Chinese (Traditional) 免費
Danish FREE-knap
Dutch FREE-knop
English FREE button
English (UK) FREE button
Estonian nupp FREE
Finnish FREE
French bouton Gratuit
German Wort „Free“ in blauem Quadrat
Hindi निशुल्क चिह्न, शुल्क मुक्त
Hungarian FREE gomb
Italian pulsante FREE
Japanese FREEマーク
Korean 프리
Lithuanian simbolis „FREE“
Malay butang FREE
Norwegian FREE-knapp
Polish przycisk FREE
Portuguese botão "FREE"
Russian значок «бесплатно»
Spanish botón FREE
Spanish (Mexico) botón FREE
Swedish FREE-knapp
Thai ฟรี
Ukrainian кнопка «FREE»
Vietnamese nút FREE