The satellite antenna emoji is your trusty parabolic dish, forever craning its metal neck to the sky like it’s waiting for aliens to text back. On Apple/iOS, it’s a sleek silver-grey dish mounted on a sturdy base, tilted upward and firing off crisp blue signal arcs—instant visual shorthand for “we’re on the air.” The metallic shading and clean lines make it look like a mini broadcast tower for your pocket, complete with that unmistakable ‘ping’ vibe. If you’ve ever seen a rooftop TV dish or those giant NASA-looking arrays, you’ll clock the reference immediately.
Online, people drop this emoji to say “I’m tuned in,” “signal received,” or “boost the broadcast” when sharing news, hot takes, or live updates. It’s also prime for nerd-flirting—“picking up your frequency”—and meme-speak like “contacting the mothership” or “SETI checking in.” Sarcastically, it doubles as the overshare siren: slap it on a thread when someone goes full radio tower with their personal drama. Nostalgia hits too: cable-TV dish memories, ham radio chatter, and the whole Area 51/alien-contact lore. Bonus usage: complaining about bad Wi‑Fi, rallying the timeline for a “signal boost,” or announcing you’re in full broadcast mode with the tea.
Definition
A metal dish object used for picking up and sending radio waves to communicate with other satellite dishes.
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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)
980 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
:satellite:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Satellite Dish
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Communication Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory
Communication Symbols
Names & Annotations
SATELLITE ANTENNA = position indicator, news
Symbol Information
U+1F4E1 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-531
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[アンテナ]
KDDI
#210 ｱﾝﾃﾅ(位置情報ﾏｰｸ) U+E4A8 SJIS-F681 JIS-7561
Softbank
#249 #old165 アンテナ 「antena」 U+E14B SJIS-F78C
Emoji Character Encoding Data
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)
1f4e1
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F4E1
Decimal Code Point(s)
128225
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0xA1
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 93 A1
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 223 241
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDCE1
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddce1
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56545
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F4E1
UTF-32 Hex
01F4E1
UTF-32 Dec
128225
Python Src
u"\U0001F4E1"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x93\xa1"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDCE1"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
