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📻️Radio Emoji
Unicode added 📻️ radio in Unicode 6.0 (2010), filed under Objects → Music. Its codepoint is U+1F4FB U+FE0F, and it is tagged entertainment, tbt and video.
What 📻️ radio means
Lyrics quoted in a caption almost always get 🎵 or 🎶 wrapped around them, which is the most common use in this group by a wide margin. 🎧️ marks what someone is listening to, 🎤 covers singing and karaoke plans, and the studio microphone 🎙️ has become the default badge for podcasts. The level sliders and control knobs stay mostly with producers.
Unicode tags this one entertainment, tbt and video and files it under Objects → Music.
Copy variants
radio 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+1F4FBradio
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F4FB U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 📻️ | |
| HTML decimal | 📻️ | |
| CSS | \1F4FB\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4FB}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F4FB\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDCFB\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f4fb}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F4FB}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F4FB}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%93%BB%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 93 BB EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DCFB FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Tu++4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128251 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- entertainment
- tbt
- video
Appears in these collections
How to type 📻️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “radio”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “entertainment”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f4fband 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 📻️ radio emoji mean?+
📻️ is the radio emoji, tagged entertainment, tbt and video. Lyrics quoted in a caption almost always get 🎵 or 🎶 wrapped around them, which is the most common use in this group by a wide margin. 🎧️ marks what someone is listening to, 🎤 covers singing and karaoke plans, and the studio microphone 🎙️ has become the default badge for podcasts. The level sliders and control knobs stay mostly with producers.
What is the Unicode code for 📻️?+
radio is U+1F4FB U+FE0F. In HTML that is 📻️, in CSS \1F4FB\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F4FB}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 📻️ emoji added?+
radio 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 Music in Objects.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 📻️ radio.