The DVD emoji is your shiny ticket back to movie-night glory days—when “buffering” wasn’t a thing and the biggest drama was picking the right chapter on the menu screen. People drop it to signal film marathons, physical-media flexes, or pure 2000s nostalgia: Blockbuster runs, Redbox detours, and that one disc that only played if you breathed on it wrong. It also works ironically—like “I’ll mail you a DVD” when a friend DMs a 3-hour video—plus the classic “come over for a DVD and chill” wink.
On Apple devices, it’s a glossy golden disc with warm yellow tones, subtle radial grooves, and a crisp white center hub, shown at a slight angle so it catches the light just right. It looks distinctly gold compared to the silver-blue CD emoji, making it instantly recognizable in a feed. Think reflective glow, clean edges, and that satisfyingly symmetrical disc vibe.
Online, it pops up in film‑Twitter hauls (hello, steelbooks and Criterion sales), collector brags, and retro-tech memes about region codes and mysterious bonus features. Some folks even use it as a stand-in for a “gold record” thanks to the color, or just to scream “physical media supremacy” when streaming drops your show mid-episode. It’s nostalgic, a little nerdy, and perfect for summoning director’s cuts, commentary tracks, and the eternal debate: widescreen vs. pan-and-scan.
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A vinyl disk which has been painted with the joyful tears of Justin briber's fans. iEmoji old name: Gold Record or Mad Music Skills. Another updated image in iOS 5! It just keeps getting better.
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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)
513 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
:dvd:
Keywords
Previous Names:
DVD
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
DVD = digital video/versatile disc
Symbol Information
U+1F4C0 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-81E
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
#254 #old129 DVD U+E127 SJIS-F767
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)
1f4c0
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F4C0
Decimal Code Point(s)
128192
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0x80
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 93 80
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 223 200
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDCC0
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddcc0
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56512
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F4C0
UTF-32 Hex
01F4C0
UTF-32 Dec
128192
Python Src
u"\U0001F4C0"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x93\x80"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDCC0"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
