🕹Joystick Emoji
Generally, 🕹 means you’re talking about video games or controlling something. It's often used in chats about gaming, but can also represent taking charge.
The 🕹 emoji is a joystick.
- Unicode
- U+1F579
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :joystick:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🕹 Joystick emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
Joystick emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the joystick has been drawn in 3 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
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.
Joystick 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 :joystick:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F579.
How to type the 🕹 Joystick emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Joystick emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the joystick as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 8 of them.
Joystick emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around joystick 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🕹 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the joystick lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🕹 Joystick emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the joystick to 2014.
Same character every time — U+1F579 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.
Joystick was approved as U+1F579 and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🕹 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.