Sos Button Emoji 🆘
Emoji Meaning
The abbreviation SOS stands for Save Our Souls is a distress call. The sign means searching for missing persons. Symbol is encoded for compatibility with the Japanese cell phone carrier emoji sets.
The symbol “Sos Button” is included in the “Squared Latin letter sequences” subblock of the “Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Alphanumeric” subcategory of the “Symbols” category.
Synonyms
SOS Button, search, hunt for missing person, distress signal, emergency, sos.
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| Unicode Name | Squared Sos |
| Unicode Number | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement |
| Unicode Subblock | Squared Latin letter sequences |
| Unicode Version | 6.0 (2010) |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 (2015) |
| Emoji Category | Symbols |
| Emoji Subcategory | Alphanumeric |
| Emoji Name | Sos Button |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1F198 |
| Simple case change | 1F198 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 86 98 | 240 159 134 152 | 4036986520 | 11110000 10011111 10000110 10011000 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3C DD 98 | 216 60 221 152 | 3627867544 | 11011000 00111100 11011101 10011000 |
| UTF-16LE | 3C D8 98 DD | 60 216 152 221 | 1020827869 | 00111100 11011000 10011000 11011101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 F1 98 | 0 1 241 152 | 127384 | 00000000 00000001 11110001 10011000 |
| UTF-32LE | 98 F1 01 00 | 152 241 1 0 | 2565931264 | 10011000 11110001 00000001 00000000 |
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