A television set, used for watching broadcast or streaming television content. Emoji

Objects

A vintage-style television set, typically colored light blue or grey, featuring a screen, physical control knobs, and an antenna on top. It represents the concept of watching broadcast or streaming content.

Usage Context

Widely used to discuss favorite shows, movies, or upcoming live events. It serves as a visual shorthand for binge-watching, turning on the tube, or referencing media culture. People often pair it with 🍿 when talking about movie nights or 🎥 for video production content.

History

Included in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this icon was designed to replicate the bulky cathode-ray tube TVs that dominated living rooms for decades. Its design has remained deliberately retro despite the industry transition to flat-panel displays, acting as a universal signifier for the act of viewing television.

Details

Glyph

📺

Unicode

U+1F4FA

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f4fa:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDCFA;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Objects

Subcategory light & video

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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