Objects · Emoji 0.6
💻Laptop Emoji
Generally, 💻 means “computer” or “laptop.” People use it to represent the act of working on a computer or discussing technology.
The 💻 emoji represents a laptop computer.
- Unicode
- U+1F4BB
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :computer:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 💻 Laptop emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
02 — Platforms
Laptop emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F4BB. 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
Laptop emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :computer:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the laptop, code point U+1F4BB.
04 — How to type
How to type the 💻 Laptop emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Laptop 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
Laptop emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around laptop 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 laptop 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+1F4BB, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — History
Where the 💻 Laptop 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+1F4BB 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 E716, KDDI au E5B8, SoftBank E00C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Laptop was approved as U+1F4BB 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