🆘 Meaning – Sos Button Emoji

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This icon shows a red square with the word “SOS” inside it. This emoji could mean stranded, need help, or in a dire situation. It’s most likely used to ask for someone’s immediate help in a crisis, or to signal someone needs to be rescued from a location. Sos Button Emoji has a severe tone and a largely negative connotation. This emoji is rarely used due to its severity and lack or visual appeal.

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Sos Button Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F198
Unicode name: Sos Button
Category: Symbols / Alphanumerical Symbols
Keywords: help
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F198
Decimal HTML Entity: 🆘
Hex HTML Entity: 🆘
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83C 0xDD98
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOS
Version: Unicode 6.0
Year: 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

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🌐 Sos Button Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	SOS-Zeichen	Hilfe, SOS
Français	bouton SOS	SOS
Русский	значок SOS	sos, помогите, помощь, сос, спасите
Español	símbolo de socorro	ayuda, símbolo, socorro, sos
Italiano	pulsante SOS	Segnale di SOS, simbolo di SOS, soccorsi, soccorso, SOS
Português	botão SOS	Ajuda, símbolo, símbolo “SOS”, SOS
Polski	przycisk SOS	na pomoc, ratunek, ratunku

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How to type Sos Button Emoji

There are number of methods to type Sos Button Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 🆘 emoji

It's very easy to get Sos Button Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 🆘 meaning and look at 🆘 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

🆘 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.