OK Button Emoji
The letters OK in a blue square, one of a set of English-language buttons.
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Meaning & usage
What does the OK Button emoji mean?
The letters OK in a blue square, one of a set of English-language buttons.
Bureaucratic in tone. It says fine rather than good, and because it looks like an interface element it can make agreement sound like closing a dialog box.
How to use 🆗 naturally
Confirmations, and a slightly bureaucratic way of saying fine.
Reaction symbols work like visual emphasis: they reinforce a word, rate an idea or replace a short response. Repetition normally increases intensity, but it can also make a message feel more performative.
From standard to slang
The history of 🆗
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, OK Button was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
The letters OK in a blue square, from the same English-language button set as 🔙 and 🔝. It agrees without approving, which is a distinction ✅ does not make.
- Today
How its use evolved
Confirmations, and a slightly bureaucratic way of saying fine.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🆗 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
🆗 Noted, I will sort it this afternoon
Fine by me 🆗
🆗 Received, no changes needed
When to use it
Using 🆗 clearly
Confirmations, and a slightly bureaucratic way of saying fine. It lands as ok button emoji or 🆗 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the ok button emoji
What does 🆗 mean in a text message?
The letters OK in a blue square, one of a set of English-language buttons. Bureaucratic in tone. It says fine rather than good, and because it looks like an interface element it can make agreement sound like closing a dialog box.
Is 🆗 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are ok button emoji, 🆗 meaning, ok square emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🆗 look different on another device?
U+1F197 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the ok button emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🆗 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the ok button emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🆗 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
Easily confused
🆗 compared with similar emoji
These sit close enough in meaning that people reach for the wrong one. Here is what actually separates them.
OK Button or Check Mark Button?
✅ confirms something is finished. 🆗 only agrees, which is a lower bar and reads noticeably cooler.
For developers
🆗 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F197 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🆗 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🆗 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F197 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F197} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%86%97 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F197
- Category
- Symbols & Reactions
- Also known as
- ok button emoji🆗 meaningok square emoji
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