The FREE button is the digital equivalent of a giant neon sticker yelling “no charge,” perfect for hyping giveaways, promo codes, and zero-dollar downloads. It shows up in captions about free shipping, posts about samples (Costco-core), and any deal that rings up at the low low price of $0.00. People also drop it sarcastically—think “free advice no one asked for,” or the classic “we’ll pay you in exposure” eye-roll. In meme land it pairs beautifully with “it’s free real estate” and the eternal “free.99.” It can even double as a cheeky schedule ping: “I’m FREE tonight,” emphasis very much intended.
On Apple/iOS, this emoji is a glossy blue rounded square with bold white uppercase letters spelling FREE—clean sans-serif, slight gradient, and a soft bevel that gives app-store-button vibes. If it reminds you of the old App Store label that used to say FREE before “GET,” you’re not alone; that nostalgia is real. It’s often used to flag F2P games, free trials (cue side-eye at auto-renew), or posts bragging about snagging something with a coupon stack. Techies sometimes joke about “free as in beer vs free as in speech” with it, while shoppers just see it and sprint. Drop it when you want instant bargain siren energy without typing a single dollar sign.
Definition
A blue square with the word Free on it. Not too shabby!
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
800 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
:free:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Squared Free FREE 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 FREE Old name: FREE SIGN = free postage Temporary Notes: a letter sign Free of Charge
Symbol Information
U+1F193 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-B21
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#114 'Free of charge' 無料 U+E6D7 SJIS-F97B JIS-7775
KDDI
#299 無料(ＦＲＥＥ) U+E578 SJIS-F795 JIS-7775
Softbank
[FREE]
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)
1f193
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F193
Decimal Code Point(s)
127379
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x86 0x93
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 86 93
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 206 223
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDD93
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdd93
UTF-16 Dec
55356 56723
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F193
UTF-32 Hex
01F193
UTF-32 Dec
127379
Python Src
u"\U0001F193"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x86\x93"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDD93"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
