The game die emoji is the internet’s let-fate-decide button, shorthand for chance, risk, and rolling with it. People drop it when choosing dinner by randomness, sending a risky text, or declaring YOLO before a big move. It brings casino energy, but it also covers board‑game nights, Monopoly grudges, Yahtzee triumphs, and D&D shenanigans where a humble d6 becomes the main character. In meme culture, it tags RNG moments like gacha pulls, loot drops, stonks optimism, or that one quiz you absolutely did not study for.
On Apple’s version, it appears as a clean white cube with black pips, the face‑five front and center (four corners plus a middle dot), angled slightly in 3D with soft shading and rounded edges you can almost tap. The high‑contrast look makes it pop in chats, whether you’re being sarcastic welp guess I’ll leave it to fate, flirty take a chance on me, or dramatically rolling for your destiny. Bonus brain candy: humans have rolled dice for thousands of years, from carved knucklebones to modern craps tables lighting up the Vegas strip. So when you need a dash of suspense or a wink at probability, this little cube says let’s roll without typing a whole speech.
Definition
A die is a cube (three-dimensional geometric shape with six square sides) used in many games. A traditional die includes a different amount of dots on each side. The dots represent a value (number) from 1 to 6. The orientation of the dots is standardized so that people can easily recognize the amount of dots (the value) shown on the top. Board games use a die or dice to enter randomness and unpredictability into the game. The die is rolled (thrown) and the side that faces up (towards the sky) is the value used in the game. Die can be used in games to identify how many spaces on a game board a player must move their game piece. Die can also be used in number only games, such as Yahtzee and Craps. Craps is a very popular table gambling game found in many casinos.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
860 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
:game_die:
Keywords
Game, Die, Dice, Craps, Gamble, Play
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Game Symbols
Editorial Comment
Come on seven or eleven! Craps, snake eyes.
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Game Symbols
Names & Annotations
GAME DIE
Symbol Information
U+1F3B2 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-80F
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[サイコロ]
KDDI
#170 サイコロ 「saikoro」 U+E4C8 SJIS-F6A1 JIS-7623
Softbank
[サイコロ]
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)
1f3b2
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F3B2
Decimal Code Point(s)
127922
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0xB2
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8E B2
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 216 262
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDFB2
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdfb2
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57266
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F3B2
UTF-32 Hex
01F3B2
UTF-32 Dec
127922
Python Src
u"\U0001F3B2"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8e\xb2"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDFB2"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
