What 📾 means
It depicts a portable stereo, often read as a boombox.
The portable-audio story runs from the Regency TR-1, a transistor radio from 1954, to Sony's 1979 Walkman cassette player, which made stereo listening personal and mobile. Boomboxes took portable sound into shared spaces in the late 1970s and 1980s, becoming associated with neighborhood parties, breakdancing, and hip-hop culture.
Retro, playful, and music-coded.
Alone, it can look like an old gadget; add words if the music context matters.
Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
5Music blasting from a boombox.
Dancing to the boombox, old-school style.
A mixtape on the boombox, an 80s mood.
Rapping over a beat from the boombox.
A beach day with music playing.
Questions people ask
1Is 📾 an emoji?
No: it is a text symbol, not a standard emoji character. Its drawing comes from the font, so details can vary between typefaces.
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How to type or find 📾
- Also called
- boombox · boom box · ghetto blaster
- Search it as
- boombox symbol · boom box symbol · ghetto blaster symbol · radio cassette symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
📾CSS
\1F4FECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
📾
HTML hex
📾
CSS content
content: "\1F4FE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%93%BE
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On screen
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Code points
2
JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.