Cinema Emoji

Symbols

A blue square icon containing two interlocking circles connected by a horizontal bar, resembling the visual representation of a film projector or a cinema screen. It serves as a universal shorthand for the movie-going experience.

Usage Context

This icon is widely used to signal that someone is heading to a theater, discussing a recent film release, or looking for movie recommendations. It is frequently grouped with 🍿 or 🎬 to organize plans for a night out.

History

Included in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the cinema emoji was adopted from early Japanese mobile carrier sets, where it was standard practice to have dedicated buttons for media and entertainment categories in text menus.

Details

Glyph

🎦

Unicode

U+1F3A6

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3a6:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFA6;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Symbols

Subcategory av-symbol

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

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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