The UP! button is that loud, cheerful square that basically yells, "Rise and shine, bestie!" It’s a blue, rounded-corner badge with bold white letters reading UP!—on Apple/iOS it has a rich blue gradient, crisp sans-serif type, a tiny top-left sheen, and a clean, front-on flat look that screams classic app UI label. It channels anything ascending: leveling up in a game, career promotions, stock charts doing the cha-cha upwards, or a personal glow-up after bangs and a better skincare routine. People drop it to bump a thread, nudge someone to scroll up, or shout out an upload/upgrade moment.
It pairs beautifully with rockets, top arrows, or bullish memes when the vibe is very “to the moon.” You’ll also see it used playfully as “I’m UP” for morning check-ins, or ironically when plans are… not up at all—peak deadpan humor. In gamer chats it’s pure XP energy; in gym posts it’s PR unlocked; in group texts it’s the rallying cry for turning up the volume, the mood, or the weekend. Culturally, it sits with the vintage set of blue label emojis that came from mobile-era UI badges, so it feels delightfully retro-tech while still being meme-ready today.
Definition
A blue button with the text 'UP' on it. iOS 5 updated image! Added exclamation mark. iEmoji old name: Blue Square UP Button.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
799 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:up:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Squared Up with Exclamation Mark UP! Button
Squared UP with Exclamation Mark
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
Unicode Range
1F173–1F1FF
Unicode Subcategory
Squared Latin Letter Sequences
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory
Square Latin Letters
Names & Annotations
SQUARED UP WITH EXCLAMATION MARK Old name: UP SIGN = new information, update Temporary Notes: site renewed, updated, new information
Symbol Information
U+1F199 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-B37
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[UP!]
KDDI
#303 更新(ＵＰ！) U+E50F SJIS-F6E8 JIS-766A
Softbank
#438 #old199 UP U+E213 SJIS-F7B3
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🆙
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🆙
Decimal HTML Entity
🆙
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🆙
Hex Code Point(s)
1f199
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F199
Decimal Code Point(s)
127385
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x86 0x99
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 86 99
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 206 231
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDD99
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdd99
UTF-16 Dec
55356 56729
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F199
UTF-32 Hex
01F199
UTF-32 Dec
127385
Python Src
u"\U0001F199"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x86\x99"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDD99"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
