What 🖮 means
It means a physical keyboard connected by cable.
It began in Wingdings, the Windows 3.1 font of 1992 that swapped letters for pictures. A 2011 proposal carried it into Unicode; version 7.0 encoded it in 2014.
Unicode cross-references it to generic keyboard , which ignores the cable. As of 2026, no slang meaning is established.
Literal and technical; use it when the cable matters.
A missing box means the receiving font lacks this glyph.
Part of collections
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
4Desk setup: keyboard and mouse.
Typing away at the desktop computer.
Typing really fast.
Furiously typing, probably an angry reply.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🖮 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
More like this
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Collections with 🖮
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How to type or find 🖮
- Search it as
- keyboard symbol · computer keyboard · keyboard icon · wired keyboard emoji · keyboard with cable · wingdings keyboard
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
🖮CSS
\1F5AEMicrosoft Word
As of 2026, type 1F5AE and press AltX.
Web page (HTML)
Numeric character reference 🖮.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🖮
HTML hex
🖮
CSS content
content: "\1F5AE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%96%AE
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.