The COOL button is the internet’s built-in stamp of approval—one tap to say “nice, love that” without breaking a sweat. Visually, it’s a blue rounded square with the word COOL in bold white caps, the emoji equivalent of a sticker you’d slap on a skateboard. People drop it to hype a friend’s fit, acknowledge a clever idea, or keep the vibe chill when words feel extra. It also works ironically—think “cool story bro” energy, or the polite “ok, cool” you send when the plan just got less fun.
On Apple devices, it shows as a bright cyan-to-blue rounded square with crisp, centered white letters in a clean sans-serif, easy to spot in a crowded chat. It pairs well with 😎, ❄️, or 🧊 for punny “cool-cool-cool” energy (shout-out to Community fans), and sometimes replaces a thumbs-up when you want vibes, not corporate HR. Culturally, it hails from the early Japanese mobile “word buttons” era alongside NEW and FREE, which is why it feels like a retro UI sticker dropped into modern DMs. Use it sincerely, use it sarcastically, or use it as a flirty “you’re cool btw” that’s breezy enough to keep plausible deniability.
Definition
A blue button with the word 'COOL' on it. Cool :)
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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)
773 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
:cool:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Squared Cool COOL Button
Cool Button
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 COOL Old name: COOL SIGN Temporary Notes: cool!; hip
Symbol Information
U+1F192 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-B38
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[COOL]
KDDI
#382 COOL! U+EA85 SJIS-F358 JIS-7939
Softbank
#439 #old200 COOL U+E214 SJIS-F7B4
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
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)
e214
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E214
Decimal Code Point(s)
57876
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x88 0x94
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 88 94
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 210 224
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE214
UTF-16 Hex
e214
UTF-16 Dec
57876
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E214
UTF-32 Hex
E214
UTF-32 Dec
57876
Python Src
u"\uE214"
PHP Src
"\xee\x88\x94"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE214"
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)
1f192
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F192
Decimal Code Point(s)
127378
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x86 0x92
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 86 92
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 206 222
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDD92
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdd92
UTF-16 Dec
55356 56722
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F192
UTF-32 Hex
01F192
UTF-32 Dec
127378
Python Src
u"\U0001F192"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x86\x92"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDD92"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
