The NG button is your big, red “Nope!” sign—short for “No Good,” a term famously used in Japan to label outtakes and flubbed takes in TV and film (think blooper reel headers and variety-show mishaps). Drop it when an idea is a hard pass, a plan is sus, or someone’s take is giving major red-flag energy. In chats it reads like: not approved, not happening, do not pass go. It also works ironically—pair it with a flawless pic and pretend you “look NG today,” or slap it on a tiny mistake like using the wrong there/their/they’re for maximum dramatic flair.
Definition
No Good. Don't go there. Similar to the picture of the woman with her arms crossed in front of her face directed at you. Blue icon with the letters "NG".
Disqus Leave a comment!
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)
759 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
:ng:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Squared NG NG 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 NG Old name: NO GOOD SIGN = no good Temporary Notes: no good, NG
Symbol Information
U+1F196 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-B28
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#Exp.36 'NG (No good)' NG U+E72F SJIS-F9D4 JIS-7E36
KDDI
[NG]
Softbank
[NG]
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)
1f196
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F196
Decimal Code Point(s)
127382
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x86 0x96
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 86 96
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 206 226
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDD96
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdd96
UTF-16 Dec
55356 56726
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F196
UTF-32 Hex
01F196
UTF-32 Dec
127382
Python Src
u"\U0001F196"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x86\x96"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDD96"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)