About Japanese “secret” Button
Japanese “secret” Button is the Unicode character ㊙️ at codepoint U+3299 in the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Japanese “secret” Button
To use the Japanese “secret” Button symbol (㊙️) in HTML, insert the
entity ㊙️ directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\3299';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u3299' evaluates to ㊙️. In Python source, write '\u3299'.
The character encodes to E3 8A 99 as UTF-8 bytes and 3299 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 12953.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.