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Fax machine

Fax machine Emoji

Objects

A classic grey or off-white desktop fax machine, typically depicted with a handset attached to the side and a sheet of paper feeding through the top or bottom slot. It represents the era of scanned document transmission via telephone lines.

Usage Context

Used to represent old-school office bureaucracy, urgent document sending, or as a nostalgic nod to outdated hardware. It is often paired with the 📄 or ☎️ emojis to emphasize the physical nature of paper-based communication.

History

Added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this emoji immortalizes the facsimile machine, a technology that peaked in the 1980s and 90s. Before email and cloud storage became standard, the 'fax' was the primary way businesses transmitted signed contracts and handwritten memos over analog copper phone lines.

Details

Glyph
📠
Unicode
U+1F4E0
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f4e0:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Google
Category Objects
Subcategory phone
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
fax machinecommunicationtechnologyfacsimilefaxmachineobjectsphoneofficepaperanalogworkbusinessnineties

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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