Activities · Games & hobbies
🎮 Video Game
Also searched as: gaming.
- Emoji
- 🎮
- Unicode
- U+1F3AE
- Shortcode
- :video_game:
- HTML code
- 🎮
- Approved in
- Unicode 6.0 (2010)
- Category
- Activities
What does the 🎮 emoji mean?
A video game controller. Gaming.
Keywords: controller, entertainment, game, video.
How 🎮 looks on each platform
Every company draws its own version of the same emoji.
Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp designs are copyrighted by each company, so we don't publish them as images. Open this page on an iPhone and the “Your device” box shows Apple's version; on a Samsung Galaxy, Samsung's.
How to type 🎮 on your keyboard
| iPhone | Open the keyboard, tap the emoji button 😀 and type “video game” in “Search Emoji”. |
|---|---|
| Android | On Gboard or the Samsung keyboard, tap the emoji icon and search “video game”. |
| Windows | Press Windows + . (period) and type “video game”. |
| Mac | Press Control + Command + Space and search “video game”. |
| Discord, Slack, GitHub | Type :video_game: |
🎮 emoji codes
| Official Unicode name | video game |
|---|---|
| Code points | U+1F3AE |
| HTML decimal | 🎮 |
| HTML hex | 🎮 |
| CSS | \1F3AE |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3AE} |
| Shortcode | :video_game: |
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See ActivitiesFrequently asked questions
What does the 🎮 emoji mean?
A video game controller. Gaming.
How do I copy and paste the video game emoji?
Tap Copy emoji on this page and paste it anywhere: WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, an email or a document. You can also find it on your phone's emoji keyboard by searching “video game”.
When was the 🎮 emoji released?
It was approved in Unicode 6.0, in 2010. Today it works on practically every phone and computer.