On Apple/iOS, it’s a glossy blue rounded square with bold white uppercase FREE in a clean sans-serif; a slight gradient and soft bevel give it strong app-store-button vibes. It even nods to the old App Store label that said FREE before it became GET. People slap it on posts about F2P games, trumpet free trials (with a knowing side-eye at auto-renew), or brag about wins from a well-played coupon stack. Techies riff on “free as in beer vs free as in speech,” while shoppers see it and sprint. Use it when you want instant bargain-siren energy without typing a dollar sign.
Functionally, the FREE button is the internet’s giant neon “no charge” sticker—ideal for giveaways, promo codes, and zero-dollar downloads. You’ll spot it in captions about free shipping, sample hauls (very Costco-core), and any deal that rings up at $0.00. It also shows up with a sarcastic tilt: “free advice no one asked for,” the classic “we’ll pay you in exposure” eye-roll, meme combos like “it’s free real estate,” and the perennial “free.99.” It can even moonlight as a cheeky schedule ping: “I’m FREE tonight,” emphasis fully intended.
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)
