= tower computer
The desktop computer emoji is your shorthand for The Desk Life: screens, spreadsheets, and the sweet hum of productivity (or procrastination) central. On Apple/iOS, it looks like a sleek iMac-style all‑in‑one: front-facing, thin black bezel, a silver aluminum stand, and a cool blue gradient on the display—clean, modern, zero tower clutter, and usually no keyboard in sight. That tidy vibe screams minimalist desk setup, the kind you see in aesthetic WFH posts and tech YouTuber thumbnails. Across platforms it can lean more “PC rig” or simply a monitor, but Apple’s version is unmistakably that glossy, studio-ready look.
People drop this emoji when they’re clocking in for remote work, pulling a late-night code sprint, or announcing “back to the grind” after touching grass for 12 minutes. It doubles as a wink for gaming or streaming (“I’ll be online”), and it’s perfect for office drama recaps, tech support cries, or ironic “Zoom jail” check-ins. In meme speak, it’s the icon of alt‑tab marathons, 37 open tabs, and Slack ping panic; in a flirty context, it becomes “come see my setup” energy. It also carries nostalgic weight—think LAN parties, Neopets, and the era when the family PC ruled the living room. Expect it to appear sarcastically when someone solves a problem with “have you tried turning it off and on again?” or dramatically when facing the void of Monday spreadsheets.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 284 of 2393 |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :desktop: |
| Keywords |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Computer Symbols |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 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) | 1f5a5 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F5A5 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128421 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0xA5 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 96 A5 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 226 245 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDDA5 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddda5 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56741 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F5A5 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F5A5 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128421 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F5A5" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x96\xa5" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDDA5" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🖥️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🖥️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🖥 ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🖥 ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f5a5, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F5A5, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128421, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0xA5, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 96 A5, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 226 245, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDDA5, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddda5, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56741, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F5A5 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F5A5, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128421, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F5A5\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x96\xa5\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDDA5\uFE0F" |
