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🎮️Video Game Emoji
🎮️ is the video game emoji, U+1F3AE U+FE0F, one of 24 in the Games & Hobbies set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for controller, entertainment and game.
What 🎮️ video game 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 controller, entertainment and game and files it under Activities → Games & Hobbies.
Copy variants
video game 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+1F3AEvideo game
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3AE U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🎮️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🎮️ | |
| CSS | \1F3AE\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3AE}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F3AE\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFAE\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f3ae}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3AE}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3AE}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8E%AE%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E AE EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFAE FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Oru+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 127918 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- controller
- entertainment
- game
- video
Appears in these collections
How to type 🎮️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “video game”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “controller”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3aeand 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 game emoji mean?+
🎮️ is the video game emoji, tagged controller, entertainment and game. 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 🎮️?+
video game is U+1F3AE U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🎮️, in CSS \1F3AE\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F3AE}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🎮️ emoji added?+
video game 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 Games & Hobbies in Activities.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🎮️ video game.