Objects · Emoji 0.6
📡Satellite Antenna Emoji
Generally, it means “sending” or “receiving” a signal or information. People often use it to indicate they’re sharing an update or have something to report.
The 📡 emoji shows a satellite dish antenna.
- Unicode
- U+1F4E1
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :satellite_
antenna: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📡 Satellite Antenna emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as contact emoji, satellite dish emoji.
02 — Platforms
Satellite Antenna emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F4E1. 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
Satellite Antenna emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :satellite_antenna:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the satellite antenna, code point U+1F4E1.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📡 Satellite Antenna emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Satellite Antenna 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
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Satellite Antenna emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around satellite antenna 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 satellite antenna and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 📡 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Difference
📡 vs 🛰️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Satellite Antenna
Code: U+1F4E1 · added 2010
Shortcode: :satellite_antenna:
Generally, it means “sending” or “receiving” a signal or information.
Unicode name: Satellite
Code: U+1F6F0 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :satellite:
Generally, it just means “satellite.”
11 — History
Where the 📡 Satellite Antenna 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+1F4E1 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 E4A8, SoftBank E14B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Satellite Antenna was approved as U+1F4E1 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