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📹️Video Camera Emoji
📹️ is the video camera emoji, U+1F4F9 U+FE0F, one of 16 in the Light, Film & Video set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for camcorder, camera and tbt.
What 📹️ video camera 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 camcorder, camera and tbt and files it under Objects → Light, Film & Video.
Copy variants
video camera 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+1F4F9video camera
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F4F9 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 📹️ | |
| HTML decimal | 📹️ | |
| CSS | \1F4F9\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4F9}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F4F9\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDCF9\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f4f9}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F4F9}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F4F9}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%93%B9%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 93 B9 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DCF9 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Tue+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128249 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- camcorder
- camera
- tbt
- video
Appears in these collections
How to type 📹️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “video camera”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “camcorder”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f4f9and 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 📹️ video camera emoji mean?+
📹️ is the video camera emoji, tagged camcorder, camera and tbt. 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 📹️?+
video camera is U+1F4F9 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 📹️, in CSS \1F4F9\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F4F9}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 📹️ emoji added?+
video camera 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 📹️ video camera.