Video Game Emoji
Copy the Video Game emoji
🎮🎮:video-game:%F0%9F%8E%AE\1F3AEWhat does the Video Game emoji mean?
🎮 is the Video Game emoji from the Activities collection. Like other Unicode emojis, it provides a compact visual shorthand for video game that enhances tone and clarity in digital communication. Unicode maps this character to U+1F3AE and it first shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). The code point ensures the same underlying meaning even though visual art varies by vendor. In community feeds this emoji works as a tag: it groups posts by interest, highlights achievements, and makes festive content instantly recognisable. On Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft and other vendors the artwork differs slightly — colour palette, shading, and line weight change — but the core concept of video game stays identical, so the emoji remains universally readable. You can copy this emoji as the character itself (🎮), as an HTML entity (🎮), or as a shortcode (:video-game:) for platforms like Slack, Discord, and GitHub.
This detailed meaning was written by the UseEmoji editorial team after reviewing Unicode CLDR data and real-world usage. For quick identification, think of this emoji as shorthand for video game — it conveys that idea faster than words while keeping the message friendly and scannable.
How to use the Video Game emoji
- In chat: Drop 🎮 into a sentence where you would normally write “video game” to add tone and visual interest.
- On social media: Pair 🎮 with a keyword or hashtag to make captions more searchable and expressive.
- In documents and code: Use the HTML entity 🎮 or shortcode :video-game: when the raw character may be escaped or unsupported.
Technical details & cross-platform notes
| Category | Activities |
| Unicode code point | U+1F3AE |
| Introduced in | Emoji 1.0 (2015) |
| Shortcode | :video-game: |
| HTML entity | 🎮 |
| Platform rendering | Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft each draw their own glyph. The meaning stays video game everywhere — only the art style changes. |
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Frequently asked questions
What does Video Game mean?
🎮 is the Video Game emoji from the Activities collection. Like other Unicode emojis, it provides a compact visual shorthand for video game that enhances tone and clarity in digital communication. Uni...
What is the Unicode code point?
Encoded at U+1F3AE, introduced in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Official name: "Video Game".
How do I copy the Video Game emoji?
Click any Copy button above (Character, HTML Entity, Shortcode, CSS), then paste with Ctrl+V or Cmd+V. On mobile, long-press to paste.
Is the Video Game emoji free to use?
Yes. The Unicode character is free for personal and commercial copy. Vendor-specific artwork is copyrighted — copy the character, not the image file.
How is Video Game used in context?
It adds visual shorthand for video game in social posts, messages, and documents where an image conveys tone faster than words.
Does it look the same on every device?
Meaning is identical, but art differs: Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft each render 🎮 with their own style, colour, and shading.