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🕹️Joystick Emoji
The joystick emoji 🕹️ carries the codepoint U+1F579 U+FE0F and has been in the standard since Unicode 7.0 (2014). It belongs to Activities → Games & Hobbies.
What 🕹️ joystick means
Games, toys and fortune-telling. 🎯 means you got something exactly right, 🎲 means chance, 🔮 covers predictions and manifesting posts, and 🧸 signals softness or nostalgia. The notable rendering story is 🔫: between 2016 and 2018 every major platform replaced its realistic pistol with a toy water gun, and the current CLDR name is water pistol.
Unicode tags this one game, video and videogame and files it under Activities → Games & Hobbies.
Copy variants
joystick 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+1F579joystick
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F579 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🕹️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🕹️ | |
| CSS | \1F579\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F579}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F579\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD79\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f579}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F579}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F579}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%95%B9%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 95 B9 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD79 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Vue+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128377 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
- game
- video
- videogame
Appears in these collections
How to type 🕹️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “joystick”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “game”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f579and 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 🕹️ joystick emoji mean?+
🕹️ is the joystick emoji, tagged game, video and videogame. Games, toys and fortune-telling. 🎯 means you got something exactly right, 🎲 means chance, 🔮 covers predictions and manifesting posts, and 🧸 signals softness or nostalgia. The notable rendering story is 🔫: between 2016 and 2018 every major platform replaced its realistic pistol with a toy water gun, and the current CLDR name is water pistol.
What is the Unicode code for 🕹️?+
joystick is U+1F579 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🕹️, in CSS \1F579\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F579}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🕹️ emoji added?+
joystick got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). 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 Games & Hobbies in Activities.
Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🕹️ joystick.