Objects · Emoji 0.6
📻Radio Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you 📻 in a text, they're just suggesting you listen to something – usually music. It’s a casual way to say “check this out” or “want to hear this?”
The 📻 emoji represents a traditional radio.
- Unicode
- U+1F4FB
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :radio:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📻 Radio emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Radio emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the radio has been drawn in 4 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Radio emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :radio:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the radio, code point U+1F4FB.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📻 Radio emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F4FB when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Radio 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
06 — Combinations
Radio emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around radio 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+1F4FB, 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: Radio
Code: U+1F4FB · added 2010
Shortcode: :radio:
Generally, when someone sends you 📻 in a text, they're just suggesting you listen to something – usually music.
Unicode name: Radioactive
Code: U+2622 U+FE0F · added 2015
Shortcode: :radioactive_sign:
Generally, the ☢️ emoji means “danger” or “radioactive.”
11 — History
Where the 📻 Radio 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+1F4FB 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 E5B9, SoftBank E128.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Radio was approved as U+1F4FB 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