Objects · Emoji 0.6
🎬Clapper Board Emoji
It usually means someone is talking about movies or filming something. It’s a visual cue to indicate a movie-related topic.
The 🎬 emoji is a clapper board.
- Unicode
- U+1F3AC
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :clapper:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🎬 Clapper Board emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
02 — Platforms
Clapper Board emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F3AC. 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
Clapper Board emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :clapper:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F3AC.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🎬 Clapper Board emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F3AC when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Clapper Board emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the clapper board as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Clapper Board emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around clapper board 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 with 🎬, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🎬 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the clapper board and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 🎬 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F3AC, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — History
Where the 🎬 Clapper Board 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+1F3AC 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 E6AC, KDDI au E4BE, SoftBank E324.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Clapper Board was approved as U+1F3AC 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.
12 — FAQ