💽Computer Disk Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the 💽 emoji in a text, they're just referencing the floppy disk image. It’s a playful way to make a connection to older technology.
The 💽 emoji represents a floppy disk.
- Unicode
- U+1F4BD
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :minidisc:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 💽 Computer Disk emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Computer Disk emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F4BD — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your computer disk looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Computer Disk emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :minidisc:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F4BD.
How to type the 💽 Computer Disk emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Computer Disk 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.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Computer Disk emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around computer disk for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
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.
What 💽 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 💽 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F4BD, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
💽 vs 🖥 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Computer Disk
Code: U+1F4BD · added 2010
Shortcode: :minidisc:
Generally, when someone sends you the 💽 emoji in a text, they're just referencing the floppy disk image.
Unicode name: Desktop Computer
Code: U+1F5A5 · added 2014
Shortcode: :desktop_computer:
Generally, it just means “computer screen” or “desktop.
Where the 💽 Computer Disk 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+1F4BD 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
KDDI au E582, SoftBank E316.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Computer Disk was approved as U+1F4BD 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.