A digital camera, used to capture photographs. Emoji

Objects

A classic digital camera depicted in black or silver, usually shown from a front-facing perspective with a prominent lens. It represents the standard point-and-shoot camera familiar to anyone who grew up in the early 2000s.

Usage Context

Widely used to indicate that someone is taking a picture, sharing a photo, or documenting an event in real-time. It is frequently sent alongside 📸 when someone is being paparazzi-style dramatic or sharing a high-quality upload.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, the camera icon reflects the era when dedicated digital point-and-shoot cameras were the primary way people captured daily life before high-end smartphone lenses became the industry standard.

Details

Glyph

📷

Unicode

U+1F4F7

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f4f7:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDCF7;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Objects

Subcategory light & video

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

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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