🆘️ SOS button emoji
HTML
🆘
Unicode
U+1F198
What is 🆘️ called?
🆘️ is called the SOS button emoji.
It is also known as emergency SOS, SOS key, or distress button. These terms describe common usage, regional language, technical meaning, or visual form rather than extra official names; Unicode’s official name is SOS button.
What does 🆘️ mean?
🆘 is officially named SOS button. SOS is an internationally recognised distress signal; it is conventionally written without assigning words to each letter.
Use it for emergencies, distress calls, urgent help, rescue, or alarms. Context supplies the precise intention, and related choices include 🅿️ P button and 🆙 Up button.
Other meanings
It can convey emergencies, distress calls, urgent help, rescue, or alarms. Context determines whether a message is numeric, linguistic, Japanese, medical, commercial, interface-related, or symbolic.
Example Usage
The labelled key represents emergencies 🆘
It can also label distress calls 🆘
More details
Officially named SOS button. Its code point is U+1F198. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0.
Visual description
Platform artwork depicts SOS button as a compact, recognisable pictograph or symbol.
SOS is an internationally recognised distress signal; it is conventionally written without assigning words to each letter. Colours, proportions, orientation, text styling, and fine details vary by platform.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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