NG button emoji meaning

The NG button emoji shows the letters NG inside a square-shaped border. NG is short for "No Good," a term that means something is not right, unacceptable, or unsatisfactory. This emoji is popularly used in Japan, where NG is often associated with bloopers, mistakes, or outtakes during recording or filming. Beyond that, it can be used in everyday conversations to express disapproval or indicate that something is not okay. It is a simple way to show that a situation or idea does not meet expectations or needs improvement.

The NG button emoji is also known as NG Emoji, No Good Emoji.

The NG button emoji was approved in Unicode 6.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/09026