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🎬️Clapper Board Emoji
The clapper board emoji 🎬️ carries the codepoint U+1F3AC U+FE0F and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Objects → Light, Film & Video.
What 🎬️ clapper board means
Filming, photography and the act of looking closely all live here. 🎥 and 🎬️ tag video work, 📸 credits a photo, and the two magnifying glasses cover searching, investigating and zooming in on somebody else's mistake. 💡 means an idea, a convention borrowed from cartoons. The diya lamp 🪔, added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019, appears mainly around Diwali.
Unicode tags this one action, board and clapper and files it under Objects → Light, Film & Video.
Copy variants
clapper board carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🎬️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 🎬U+1F3ACclapper board
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3AC U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🎬️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🎬️ | |
| CSS | \1F3AC\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3AC}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F3AC\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFAC\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f3ac}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3AC}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3AC}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8E%AC%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E AC EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFAC FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+OrO+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 127916 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- action
- board
- clapper
- movie
Appears in these collections
How to type 🎬️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “clapper board”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “action”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3acand Enter. - HTML — paste
🎬️.
How 🎬️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🎬️Apple
- 🎬️Segoe
- 🎬️Noto
- 🎬️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🎬️ clapper board emoji mean?+
🎬️ is the clapper board emoji, tagged action, board and clapper. Filming, photography and the act of looking closely all live here. 🎥 and 🎬️ tag video work, 📸 credits a photo, and the two magnifying glasses cover searching, investigating and zooming in on somebody else's mistake. 💡 means an idea, a convention borrowed from cartoons. The diya lamp 🪔, added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019, appears mainly around Diwali.
What is the Unicode code for 🎬️?+
clapper board is U+1F3AC U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🎬️, in CSS \1F3AC\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F3AC}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🎬️ emoji added?+
clapper board got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Light, Film & Video in Objects.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🎬️ clapper board.