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SOS button

The SOS button emoji is a red alert emoji with the letters “SOS” in the center. It literally means “Save Our Souls” and is often used by those who are stranded somewhere and need help, but you can also use it when you need a big favor from a friend or you’re stuck on a bad date and need a different kind of rescue mission.

Keywords: help, sos, sos button
Codepoints: 1F198
Introduced: October, 2010 in Unicode version 6.0.0 (Emoji version 0.6)
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