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 Twitter/X

Category Objects

Subcategory light & video

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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

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