What 🖭 means
A cartridge of magnetic tape built for computer storage.
Tape began as audio in the 1930s, entered commercial computer storage in the early 1950s, and shrank from reels into cartridges like IBM's 3480 in 1984.
Technical; when someone sends 🖭, read it as storage or backup.
Use words if you mean music.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Backing up the computer to tape.
Archived on tape and stored away.
Old-school storage: tape and floppy.
Questions people ask
2Why does 🖭 show as a box?
Missing font support. The character is a text symbol, not a guaranteed emoji, so the device substitutes a box.
Is there a cassette emoji?
Not as of 2026 — no audio-cassette character exists; 🖭 is the closest tape image.
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How to type or find 🖭
- Also called
- data cartridge
- Search it as
- data tape · backup · archive · cassette
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
🖭CSS
\1F5ADCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🖭
HTML hex
🖭
CSS content
content: "\1F5AD";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%96%AD
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On screen
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Code points
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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.