The ID button is that no‑nonsense blue square that basically says, “Show me your papers, please,” but make it digital. People drop it when they’re asking for receipts, proof, age verification, or just trying to suss out who’s who in a chaotic group chat. It’s perfect for bouncer energy (“ID, please”) or calling out a sus alt account that popped up with main-character opinions and zero history. Also works sarcastically after unbelievable claims—“You invented Wi‑Fi? ID button.”
On Apple devices, it’s a glossy blue rounded square with a gentle gradient (royal-to-cobalt), stamped with bold white “ID” letters front and center in a clean sans-serif. The look is flat, frontal, and signage-like, matching Apple’s other label-style emojis (think NEW, SOS), so it reads fast even at tiny sizes. Culturally, it taps into everything from club-door checks to KYC forms to that friend who wants “sources?” under every hot take. Use it for identity checks, gatekeeping with a wink, or that moment when you’re low-key auditing the timeline.
Definition
A purple icon with the letters 'ID' on it.
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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)
717 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
:id:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Squared ID ID Button
ID Required Icon
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 ID Old name: IDENTIFICATION SIGN = identification, ID Temporary Notes: ID ("ID" stamp)
Symbol Information
U+1F194 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-B81
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#115 'ID' ID U+E6D8 SJIS-F97C JIS-793C
KDDI
#385 ＩＤマーク 「ＩＤmaaku」 U+EA88 SJIS-F35B JIS-793C
Softbank
#449 #old221 ID U+E229 SJIS-F7C9
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)
e229
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E229
Decimal Code Point(s)
57897
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x88 0xA9
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 88 A9
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 210 251
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE229
UTF-16 Hex
e229
UTF-16 Dec
57897
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E229
UTF-32 Hex
E229
UTF-32 Dec
57897
Python Src
u"\uE229"
PHP Src
"\xee\x88\xa9"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE229"
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)
1f194
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F194
Decimal Code Point(s)
127380
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x86 0x94
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 86 94
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 206 224
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDD94
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdd94
UTF-16 Dec
55356 56724
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F194
UTF-32 Hex
01F194
UTF-32 Dec
127380
Python Src
u"\U0001F194"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x86\x94"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDD94"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
