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📟️Pager Emoji
📟️ is the pager emoji, U+1F4DF U+FE0F, one of 6 in the Phone set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for communication.
What 📟️ pager 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 and files it under Objects → Phone.
Copy variants
pager 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+1F4DFpager
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F4DF U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 📟️ | |
| HTML decimal | 📟️ | |
| CSS | \1F4DF\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4DF}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F4DF\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDCDF\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f4df}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F4DF}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F4DF}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%93%9F%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 93 9F EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DCDF FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Tn++4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128223 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- communication
How to type 📟️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “pager”. - 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 type1f4dfand 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 📟️ pager emoji mean?+
📟️ is the pager emoji, tagged communication. 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 📟️?+
pager is U+1F4DF U+FE0F. In HTML that is 📟️, in CSS \1F4DF\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F4DF}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 📟️ emoji added?+
pager 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 📟️ pager.