🟡

🟡 U+1F7E1, 🟡
LARGE YELLOW CIRCLE
← 🟠
[U+1F7E0] 		Geometric Shapes Extended 🟢 →
[U+1F7E2]

Translingual

Description

A solid yellow circle.

Symbol

🟡

  1. (Internet slang) Maybe; abstention; neutral.
    • 2020 September 3, voguepetty, Twitter‎ (in English):
      Album: The Pinkprint 💞
      🟢Play
      🔴Skip
      🟡Maybe
    • 2022 December 13, sapphireclad, Twitter‎ (in English):
      Riigikogu vote result on transitioning to Estonian language education
      🟢 For - 62
      🔴 Against - 16
      🟡 Didn't vote - 5
      ⚫️ Absent - 18
  2. (Internet slang) The colour yellow; or, representing something that is yellow.
    • 2019 December 18, M_Vogts_12, Twitter‎ (in English):
      Beyond Blesssed to receive an offer from Pitt State University!! 🦍🔴🟡 #gogorillas
    • 2021 October 23, SFZaheer2001, Twitter‎ (in English):
      🔵 7-0 🟡 - Maybe I should go Stamford Bridge more often hahaha
    • 2023 October 16, FullyDanet, Twitter‎ (in English):
      Blue 🔵 is the sky that we soar through
      Yellow 🟡 is the sun that we chase
      Orange 🟠 is the fire that we ignite
      Red 🔴 is the passion that we share
  3. (graphical user interface) On Apple Mac computers, a button that when pressed minimises a window.
    • 2010, Robin Williams, John Tollett, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (in English), Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page 9:
      🟡 Single-click the yellow button to minimize the window, which sends a tiny icon down into the Dock, on the right side.
  4. (graphical user interface, social media) AFK; idle; inactive.
  5. (transport) Of a traffic light, reduce speed; slow down.
    • 2018, Sharon Aller, Reset Families: Building Social and Emotional Skills While Avoiding Nagging and Power Struggles (in English), Page Publishing, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
      I was coming to the front of the line just as the light turned yellow. I know the right thing to do would have been to slow to a stop, but I really didn't want to wait through another set of lights with three lanes of traffic in every direction.
  6. (chiefly signage) An advisory; caution, warning; hazard.
  7. (rare) Partially correct.

Usage notes

As an emoji, the display of this character differs by operating system, ranging from a solid yellow circle to coloured orange outlines and a polished (shiny) display.[1]

Coordinate terms

See also

References
  1. “🟡 Yellow Circle”, in Emojipedia‎, n.d., retrieved 22 October 2023, Emoji Designs


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