Objects · Emoji 0.6
📹Video Camera Emoji
Generally, 📹 means someone is referencing or talking about video content. It’s often used to share a video link or talk about watching a movie.
The 📹 emoji represents a video camera.
- Unicode
- U+1F4F9
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :video_
camera: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📹 Video Camera emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
02 — Platforms
Video Camera emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the video camera as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Video Camera emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :video_camera:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F4F9.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📹 Video Camera emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F4F9 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Video Camera emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the video camera 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
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Video Camera emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around video camera 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 📹 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F4F9, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Difference
📹 vs 📷 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Video Camera
Code: U+1F4F9 · added 2010
Shortcode: :video_camera:
Generally, 📹 means someone is referencing or talking about video content.
Unicode name: Camera
Code: U+1F4F7 · added 2010
Shortcode: :camera:
Generally, when someone sends you the 📷 emoji, they're sharing a photo they took with you or referencing a picture they want to show.
11 — History
Where the 📹 Video Camera 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+1F4F9 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 E677, KDDI au E57E.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Video Camera was approved as U+1F4F9 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