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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Used to represent old-school office bureaucracy, urgent document sending, or as a nostalgic nod to outdated hardware.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 Twitter/X
Category Objects
Subcategory phone
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
fax machinecommunicationtechnologyfacsimilefaxmachineobjectsphoneofficepaperanalogworkbusinessnineties

Twemoji Attribution

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

Twemoji graphics are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You must provide appropriate credit when redistributing or modifying these assets.

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