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📠Fax Machine Emoji
Tagged communication, fax and machine, 📠 fax machine sits in Unicode's Phone group inside Objects. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+1F4E0.
What 📠 fax machine means
Six devices covering how people reach each other, though only two still describe current hardware. 📱 means texting or screen time, 📞 and ☎️ mean an actual voice call, and 📲 was once shorthand for check your messages. The plain telephone ☎️ predates emoji entirely, existing as a black and white text symbol in Unicode since the early 1990s.
Unicode tags this one communication, fax and machine and files it under Objects → Phone.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F4E0 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 📠 | |
| HTML decimal | 📠 | |
| CSS | \1F4E0 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4E0} | |
| Python | \U0001F4E0 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDCE0 | |
| Rust | \u{1f4e0} | |
| Swift | \u{1F4E0} | |
| PHP | \u{1F4E0} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%93%A0 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 93 A0 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DCE0 | |
| Base64 | 8J+ToA== | |
| Decimal | 128224 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- communication
- fax
- machine
Appears in these collections
How to type 📠
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “fax machine”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “communication”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f4e0and 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 📠 fax machine emoji mean?+
📠 is the fax machine emoji, tagged communication, fax and machine. Six devices covering how people reach each other, though only two still describe current hardware. 📱 means texting or screen time, 📞 and ☎️ mean an actual voice call, and 📲 was once shorthand for check your messages. The plain telephone ☎️ predates emoji entirely, existing as a black and white text symbol in Unicode since the early 1990s.
What is the Unicode code for 📠?+
fax machine is U+1F4E0. In HTML that is 📠, in CSS \1F4E0, and in JavaScript \u{1F4E0}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 📠 emoji added?+
fax machine 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 Phone in Objects.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 📠 fax machine.