Symbols · Emoji 0.6
🎦Cinema Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the 🎦 emoji, they’re just suggesting you watch something – a movie, a TV show, or even a short video. It's a simple way to share a recommendation or express interest in watching something together.
The 🎦 emoji is a video camera icon.
- Unicode
- U+1F3A6
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :cinema:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🎦 Cinema emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Cinema emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F3A6. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Cinema emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :cinema:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F3A6.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🎦 Cinema emoji
No picker to hand? The cinema can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Cinema emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Cinema emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cinema for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🎦 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the cinema and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 🎦 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the cinema lands changes how it is taken.
10 — History
Where the 🎦 Cinema emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F3A6 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🎦 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E677, KDDI au E517, SoftBank E507.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Cinema was approved as U+1F3A6 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🎦 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
11 — FAQ