🟡

Text style	Emoji style
🟡︎	🟡️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
🟡 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^[2] (in English):

     Album: The Pinkprint 💞
     🟢Play
     🔴Skip
     🟡Maybe

   • 2022 December 13, sapphireclad, Twitter‎^[3] (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^[4] (in English):

     Beyond Blesssed to receive an offer from Pitt State University!! 🦍🔴🟡 #gogorillas

   • 2021 October 23, SFZaheer2001, Twitter‎^[5] (in English):

     🔵 7-0 🟡 - Maybe I should go Stamford Bridge more often hahaha

   • 2023 October 16, FullyDanet, Twitter‎^[6] (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.

Coordinate terms

• 🔴
• 🟠
• 🟢
• 🔵
• 🟣
• ⚫
• ⚪
• 🟤

See also

• ⭕
• 🔘