The Japanese “discount” button is basically a tiny neon sale sign for your texts—think department-store red tag energy in emoji form. It shows the kanji 割引 (waribiki), meaning discount/markdown, a word you’ll spot all over Japanese retail from konbini shelves to mega-bargain caves like Don Quijote. People drop it when they’re sharing coupon codes, hyping flash sales, or flexing their thrift-game receipts—often paired with 💸🛒🏷️📉 or a spicy % to scream “price drop alert.” It also does numbers in meme-land: “respect is 50% off today,” “my dignity is on clearance,” or “emotional availability—markdown ends at midnight.”
On Apple/iOS, it looks like a glossy, candy-apple red rounded square with crisp white kanji centered, high-contrast and easy to spot even at micro size. The tile is head-on and flat, with subtle shading that makes it feel like a clickable store button, matching Apple’s whole set of Japanese signage-style emojis. If you’ve ever speed-walked to a UNIQLO sale rack, your brain already recognizes this visual—red tile, white letters, instant dopamine. It’s practical for real deals, but also perfect for dramatic, ironic, or even flirt-adjacent posts (e.g., “boyfriend applications now 30% off, apply within”).
Definition
Japanese Kanji for Discount, Divide.
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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.
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Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-5272 Japanese "Discount" Button
Discount Sign
