Objects · Emoji 0.6
📼Videocassette Emoji
Generally, it means “old school” or “retro.” People use it to show they’re referencing something from a previous era, like a movie or a style.
The 📼 emoji is a videocassette.
- Unicode
- U+1F4FC
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :vhs:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📼 Videocassette emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Videocassette emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F4FC. 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
Videocassette 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 :vhs:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F4FC.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📼 Videocassette emoji
No picker to hand? The videocassette can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Videocassette emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the videocassette 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
06 — Combinations
Videocassette emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around videocassette 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 videocassette and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 📼 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F4FC, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — History
Where the 📼 Videocassette 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+1F4FC 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 E580, SoftBank E129.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Videocassette was approved as U+1F4FC 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.
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