kanji forbidden
Symbols
What it means when sent
The single kanji ็ฆ, meaning forbidden. It comes from Japanese signage rather than decoration, and people who cannot read the character often send it as if it were just a red square.
Official name vs. real use
The name Unicode gave it and the way people use it are not the same. If you searched your way here, the second one is usually what you were after.
- Official name
- Japanese "prohibited" button
- What people call it
- kanji forbidden
- Code point
- U+1F232
- Code points
- 1
A single code point. One backspace deletes it.
Symbols usually carry an older meaning. ๐ฏ is not the number one hundred but total agreement, and ๐ต and ๐ณ are opposites โ full and vacant.
Using emojis
- Tap the character to copy it and paste it anywhere โ it is text, not an image, so its size follows the font around it.
- Sender and receiver on different devices see different drawings. Apple, Google and Samsung each draw their own, and for some emojis that changes the meaning (๐, ๐ ).
- At work, an emoji standing in for a sentence invites misreading. In some countries a bare ๐ reads as a brush-off.
- Putting emojis in a page title does not help search ranking โ they are usually stripped from the result.
- Skin-tone variants are not listed here. Only the base form is, because the meaning does not change with them.
Common questions
Q. What does ๐ฒ mean?
The single kanji ็ฆ, meaning forbidden. It comes from Japanese signage rather than decoration, and people who cannot read the character often send it as if it were just a red square.
Q. What is its official name?
Unicode calls it Japanese "prohibited" button, code point U+1F232. It sits under Symbols.
Q. Does it survive copy and paste?
On most devices, yes โ though every vendor draws it slightly differently.