💿Optical Disk Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you 💿, they're just referencing CDs or music. It’s a quick way to say “I’m listening to this” or “This reminds me of this album.
The 💿 emoji represents an optical disk, most commonly a CD.
- Unicode
- U+1F4BF
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :cd:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 💿 Optical Disk emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
People also look for it as ray emoji.
Optical Disk emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the optical disk has been drawn in 5 ways.
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.
Optical Disk 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 :cd:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the optical disk, code point U+1F4BF.
How to type the 💿 Optical Disk emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F4BF when there is no key at all.
Optical 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
Optical Disk emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around optical 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
Who sent the optical disk and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 💿 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the optical disk lands changes how it is taken.
💿 vs 💽 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Optical Disk
Code: U+1F4BF · added 2010
Shortcode: :cd:
Generally, when someone sends you 💿, they're just referencing CDs or music.
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.
Where the 💿 Optical 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+1F4BF 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 E68C, KDDI au E50C, SoftBank E126.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Optical Disk was approved as U+1F4BF 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.