Video game emoji 🎮
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F3AE
What 🎮 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🎮 are controller, entertainment, game, video. They show what people use it for.
Search for controller or entertainment on your emoji keyboard and 🎮 is among the results.
You will find 🎮 among the games (24 emoji), part of activities with 85 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🕹️ 🎰 🎲 🧩.
Will 🎮 show on my friend's phone?
One of the first emoji ever: 🎮 is part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, the set that started on Japanese phones. It shows everywhere.
How to type 🎮
Search for video game in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🎮.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type video game.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type video game in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type video game.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🎮 is one code point (U+1F3AE), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F3AE | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🎮 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🎮 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F3AE"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3AE} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%8E%AE | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E AE |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🎮 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | video game |
| Português | videogame |
| Español | mando de videoconsola |
| Italiano | gamepad |
| Français | jeu vidéo |
| Deutsch | Gamepad |
| Türkçe | video oyunu |
| Bahasa Indonesia | video game |
| Polski | gra wideo |
| Русский | видеоигры |
| 日本語 | テレビゲーム |
| 한국어 | 비디오 게임 |
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What does the video game emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🎮 "video game" and links it with controller, entertainment, game, video. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the games subgroup of activities.
When was the video game emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the video game emoji?
Search for video game in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🎮.