The optical disk emoji is your tiny portal back to the age of skip-proof Walkmans, glovebox CD wallets, and the sacred art of burning a mix for your crush. It stands in for CDs and DVDs alike—music albums, movie nights, driver discs that came with printers, and any “I swear I backed it up” moment. Online, people use it for retro tech vibes, Y2K aesthetics, or to jokingly announce they’ve “dropped a playlist,” but it’s actually a link, not a physical disc (sorry, no Sharpie labeling your feelings today). It also pops up in memes about physical media vs. streaming, with proud collectors flexing shelves of shiny circles like dragon hoards.
On Apple/iOS, it shows a glossy silver disc with that unmistakable rainbow iridescence fanning across the surface, a clean central hole, and subtle highlights that make it look freshly unwrapped. The angle is slightly top-down, so you get that prismatic gleam that screams “don’t touch the underside!” It can read nostalgic, flirty (“I made you a mix”), or sarcastic (“brb, installing drivers from 2003”). Perfect for throwbacks to LimeWire-era chaos, LAN-party bragging rights, or dramatic posts like “all my secrets are on this disc.”
Definition
A silver disk of optical media of some sort. Optical Disk Baby! Updated image in iOS 5! Woot!
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
533 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:cd:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Optical Disc
Optical Disk
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Office Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory
Office Symbols
Names & Annotations
OPTICAL DISC Old name: OPTICAL DISK
Symbol Information
U+1F4BF proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-81D
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#79 'CD' ＣＤ U+E68C SJIS-F8ED JIS-7667
KDDI
#300 CD/DVD U+E50C SJIS-F6E5 JIS-7667
Softbank
#253 #old128 CD U+E126 SJIS-F766
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
Decimal HTML Entity

Hexadecimal HTML Entity

Hex Code Point(s)
e126
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E126
Decimal Code Point(s)
57638
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x84 0xA6
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 84 A6
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 204 246
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE126
UTF-16 Hex
e126
UTF-16 Dec
57638
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E126
UTF-32 Hex
E126
UTF-32 Dec
57638
Python Src
u"\uE126"
PHP Src
"\xee\x84\xa6"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE126"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
💿
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
💿
Decimal HTML Entity
💿
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
💿
Hex Code Point(s)
1f4bf
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F4BF
Decimal Code Point(s)
128191
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0xBF
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 92 BF
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 222 277
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDCBF
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddcbf
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56511
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F4BF
UTF-32 Hex
01F4BF
UTF-32 Dec
128191
Python Src
u"\U0001F4BF"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x92\xbf"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDCBF"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
