🎮U+1F3AE
Video game emoji
A game controller with buttons and a directional pad or control sticks. Gamers use it for video games, gaming sessions, console and PC play, and streams or game nights.
- Unicode name
- video game
- Category
- Activities, Games
- Added
- Emoji 0.6 in 2010
- Code points
- U+1F3AE
- Shortcode
:video_game:- Keywords
- controller, entertainment, game, video
How it looks
How to type 🎮
- iPhone and iPad
- Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “video game”.
- Android
- In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “video game”.
- Mac
- Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “video game”.
- Windows
- Press Windows + . (period) and type “video game”.
- GitHub
- Type :video_game: in an issue, pull request or comment.
In other languages
| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español | mando de videoconsola | juego, mando, mando de videoconsola, videojuego |
| Français | jeu vidéo | jeu vidéo, joystick, manette, playstation, xbox |
| Deutsch | Gamepad | Gamepad, Gaming, Unterhaltung, Videospiel |
| Italiano | gamepad | console, gamepad, giocare, gioco, joystick, videogioco |
| Português | videogame | controle, game, jogo, jogos, playstation, video, videogame, xbox |
| Nederlands | videogame | controller, game, gamecontroller, playstation, spel, videogame, videospel, xbox |
| Svenska | tv-spel | kontroll, spel, tv-spel, tv-spelskontroll |
| Polski | gra wideo | do gier, gamepad, gra, gra wideo, konsola, kontroler, pad |
| Türkçe | video oyunu | kontrol cihazı, oyun, oyun konsolu, oyun kontrol cihazı, video oyunu, xbox |
| Русский | видеоигры | play, playstation, station, видеоигры, игры, компьютер, компьютерные, приставка |
| Українська | ігровий контролер | відеогра, гра, джойстик, ігровий контролер, контролер, управління |
| Ελληνικά | βιντεοπαιχνίδι | playstation, xbox, βιντεοπαιχνίδι, διασκέδαση, παιχνίδι, χειριστήριο, ψυχαγωγία |
| العربية | لعبة فيديو | ألعاب, إكس بوكس, العاب كمبيوتر, بلاي ستايشن, جويستك, فيديو غايم, لعبة فيديو |
| עברית | משחק וידאו | ג׳ויסטיק, וידאו, מחשב, משחק, קונסולה, שלט משחק |
| فارسی | بازی ویدیویی | بازی, بازی ویدیویی, دسته, کنترلکننده |
| हिन्दी | वीडियो गेम, कंट्रोलर | कंट्रोलर, खेल, गेम, मनोरंजन, वीडियो गेम, वीडियो गेम, कंट्रोलर |
| বাংলা | ভিডিও গেম | কন্ট্রোলার, খেলা, নিয়ন্ত্রক, ভিডিও গেম |
| Bahasa Indonesia | video game | game, hiburan, kontrol, pengontrol, permainan, video |
| Tiếng Việt | trò chơi điện tử | giải trí, tay điều khiển, thiết bị điều khiển, trò chơi, trò chơi điện tử |
| ไทย | วิดีโอเกม | เกม, จอยสติ๊ก, วิดีโอเกม |
| 日本語 | テレビゲーム | ゲーム, コントローラ, テレビゲーム, ビデオゲーム |
| 한국어 | 비디오 게임 | 게임, 게임패드, 비디오 게임, 엔터테인먼트, 컨트롤러 |
| 中文（简体） | 游戏手柄 | 手柄, 游戏, 游戏手柄, 游戏控制器, 电子游戏 |
| 中文（繁體） | 電玩 | xbox, 遙控器, 電動, 電玩 |
Names in 99 more languages
| Afrikaans | videospeletjie |
|---|---|
| Akan | video agorͻ |
| Albanian | videolojë |
| Amharic | የቪዲዮ ጨዋታ |
| Armenian | տեսախաղ |
| Assamese | ভিডিঅ’ গেম |
| Azerbaijani | video oyun |
| Bashkir | видеоуйын |
| Basque | bideo-jokoa |
| Belarusian | відэагульня |
| Bosnian | video igre |
| Breton | cʼhoari video |
| Bulgarian | видеоигра |
| Burmese | ဗီဒီယို ဂိမ်း |
| Cantonese | 電視遊戲 |
| Cantonese (Simplified) | 电视游戏 |
| Catalan | videojoc |
| Cherokee | ᎠᏓᏴᎵᏛᏍᎩ ᏗᏁᎵᏙᏗ |
| Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR China) | 電子遊戲 |
| Chuvash | курмаллӑ вӑйӑ |
| Croatian | videoigrica |
| Czech | videohra |
| Danish | videospil |
| Estonian | videomäng |
| European Portuguese | comando de consola |
| Faroese | kontrollari |
| Filipino | video game |
| Finnish | videopeli |
| Galician | videoxogo |
| Georgian | ვიდეო თამაში |
| Gujarati | વિડિઓ ગેમ |
| Hausa | wasan bidiyo |
| Hungarian | videojáték |
| Icelandic | tölvuleikur |
| Igbo | egwuregwu vidio |
| Irish | cluiche ríomhaire |
| Javanese | game video |
| Kalaallisut | videospil |
| Kannada | ವೀಡಿಯೋ ಗೇಮ್ |
| Kazakh | бейне ойын |
| Kazakh (Arabic) | بەينە ويىن |
| Khmer | ដៃហ្គេម |
| Kinyarwanda | videwo y’umukino |
| Konkani | व्हिडियो गेम |
| Kyrgyz | видео оюну |
| Kʼicheʼ | Silob’wachib’al rech etz’anem |
| Lao | ວີດີໂອເກມ |
| Latin American Spanish | video juegos |
| Latvian | videospēle |
| Lithuanian | vaizdo žaidimas |
| Lower Sorbian | gamepad |
| Luxembourgish | Videospill |
| Macedonian | видеоигра |
| Malay | permainan video |
| Malayalam | വീഡിയോ ഗെയിം |
| Maltese | video game |
| Marathi | व्हिडिओ गेम |
| Mongolian | видео тоглоом |
| Māori | kēmu ataata |
| Nepali | भिडियो गेम |
| Nigerian Pidgin | Vídió Gem |
| Northern Sotho | papadi ya bidio |
| Norwegian | videospill |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | videospel |
| Odia | ଭିଡିଓ ଗେମ୍ |
| Oromo | tapha suurasagalee |
| Pashto | ویډیو لوبې |
| Punjabi | ਵੀਡੀਓ ਗੇਮ |
| Punjabi (Arabic) | بصری کھیڈ |
| Quechua | video pukllay |
| Romanian | joc video |
| Romansh | controller |
| Sardinian | videogiogu |
| Scottish Gaelic | geama video |
| Serbian | видео игра |
| Serbian (Latin) | video igra |
| Shan | ဝီးတီးဢူဝ်းၵဵမ်း |
| Sindhi | ويڊيو راند |
| Sinhala | වීඩියෝ ක්රීඩාව |
| Slovak | videohra |
| Slovenian | videoigra |
| Somali | cayaarta maqal-muuqal |
| Swahili | mchezo wa video |
| Tajik | бозии видеоӣ |
| Tamil | வீடியோ கேம் |
| Telugu | వీడియో గేమ్ |
| Tigrinya | ቪድዮ ጸወታ |
| Tongan | vaʻinga vitiō |
| Tswana | motshameko wa bidio |
| Turkmen | wideo oýun |
| Upper Sorbian | gamepad |
| Urdu | ویڈیو گیم |
| Uyghur | ئېلېكتىرونلۇق ئويۇن |
| Uzbek | video o‘yin |
| Welsh | gêm fideo |
| Wolof | powum wideo |
| Xhosa | umdlalo wevidiyo |
| Yoruba | Ere-idaraya Fidio |
| Zulu | umdlalo wevidiyo |
Codes
- Code points
U+1F3AE- HTML
🎮- CSS
\1F3AE- JavaScript, Rust, Swift
\u{1F3AE}- Python
\U0001F3AE- UTF-8 bytes
F0 9F 8E AE- UTF-16
D83C DFAE- URL encoded
%F0%9F%8E%AE
Questions
What does the 🎮 video game emoji mean?
A game controller with buttons and a directional pad or control sticks. Gamers use it for video games, gaming sessions, console and PC play, and streams or game nights.
How do I type the 🎮 emoji?
On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “video game”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :video_game:.
When was the 🎮 emoji added?
🎮 was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010.
What is the Unicode code point for 🎮?
U+1F3AE. In HTML you can write 🎮, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F3AE}.