On Apple/iOS, it shows up as a chunky gray office box at a slight three-quarter tilt, with a landline handset docked on the side, a tiny green LCD, and a keypad made of round buttons. A white page with dark text is spitting out of the top, sometimes curling—a visual shorthand for jam-prone bureaucracy. The plastic has a soft gloss, blue-gray accents, and a few colored function keys that scream corporate 1998.
Online, it moonlights as a pun engine: “fax” sounds like “facts,” so people tack it onto hot takes—“fax 📠, no printer.” It can also mean “send the receipts” (show proof), or fuel sarcastic boomer cosplay in group chats: “What’s your fax number, kiddo?” Meme-y, retro, and a little chaotic, it’s ideal for calling out time-warp workflows (hello, healthcare and government forms) or dramatizing that “this meeting could’ve been an email” vibe.
At heart, the fax machine emoji is a tiny shrine to paperwork, red tape, and that whiny dial-up screech. People drop it when talking about forms, signatures, or office chaos, or just to clown on anything painfully outdated—pure “I’ll fax it over” energy.
Definition
An old fax machine with paper loaded ready to go.
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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)
628 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
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Phantom Open Emoji Picture
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ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:fax:
Keywords
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
FAX MACHINE Old name: FAX
Symbol Information
U+1F4E0 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-528
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#107 'fax to' fax to U+E6D0 SJIS-F974 JIS-767B
KDDI
#166 ＦＡＸ U+E520 SJIS-F6F9 JIS-767B
Softbank
#246 #old11 FAX U+E00B SJIS-F94B
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)
1f4e0
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F4E0
Decimal Code Point(s)
128224
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0xA0
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 93 A0
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 223 240
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDCE0
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddce0
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56544
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F4E0
UTF-32 Hex
01F4E0
UTF-32 Dec
128224
Python Src
u"\U0001F4E0"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x93\xa0"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDCE0"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
