The television emoji is pure couch-core energy: a tiny retro TV that screams binge night, live sports hype, or “don’t spoil the finale.” People drop it when asking what to watch, announcing a watch party, or reacting to drama so wild it feels scripted. It also lands as a wink to background-noise culture—aka putting something on while you fold laundry and somehow ending up three episodes deep.
On Apple devices, it’s a classic CRT set with that rounded, blue-tinted screen glow, a chunky dark casing, and shiny rabbit-ear antennas poking up like it’s perpetually trying to get better reception. You’ll notice small side details—little vents or dials—and a slight three-quarter angle that makes it look like it’s sitting on a mid-century credenza waiting for Saturday morning cartoons. It’s unmistakably old-school, which is half the charm.
In texting and meme-land, 📺 doubles as a reaction: “This belongs on TV,” “soap-opera energy,” or a sly way to say you’re tuned in to the tea. It can be sarcastic when someone is acting performative, flirtatious when you’re proposing a Netflix-and-chill rerun, or dramatic when you drop it next to a popcorn emoji for maximum reality-show vibes. Whether you’re channel surfing, doom-scrolling headlines, or calling a “remote control truce,” this little screen sets the scene.
Definition
Updated image in iOS 5! Bigger screen! Honestly, Unicode needs an update. There is no way this thing is going to be high def. ;) iEmoji old iEmoji name: Classic Television. An old cathode ray tube television set with antenna. It is safe to say it will only receive UHF channels.
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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)
377 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
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LG Emoji Picture
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Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:tv:
Keywords
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Audio and Video Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Audio and Video
Names & Annotations
TELEVISION
Symbol Information
U+1F4FA proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-81C
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#77 'TV' ＴＶ U+E68A SJIS-F8EB JIS-765D
KDDI
#288 テレビ 「terebi」 U+E502 SJIS-F6DB JIS-765D
Softbank
#240 #old132 テレビ 「terebi」 U+E12A SJIS-F76A
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)
1f4fa
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F4FA
Decimal Code Point(s)
128250
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0xBA
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 93 BA
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 223 272
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDCFA
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddcfa
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56570
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F4FA
UTF-32 Hex
01F4FA
UTF-32 Dec
128250
Python Src
u"\U0001F4FA"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x93\xba"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDCFA"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
