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Television Emoji 📺

A boxy TV screen on a stand, the television emoji represents watching shows, movies, or the news. It covers couch-potato nights and binge-watching alike, and gets used loosely for anything broadcast or streamed, no matter what device it's actually watched on.

What 📺 means

A vintage television set with a brown square box or case fitted with buttons and a rounded TV screen within the frame of this case. Sometimes, this emoji is shown with a pair of antennae on top.

The 📺 Television emoji represents the ancient TV set that preceded all the ultra-tech televisions we use today. Nonetheless, it signifies entertainment, one-way communication, and a source of information too.

How and when to use it

The television is a 'small screen' compared to cinema, theatre, etc. If you're referring to this small screen literally or figuratively in any framework, 📺 is most welcome - "You've got to start small before you make it big, dude 📺 That's the law of the honest land".
If you're using the word 'entertainment' or the essence/function of it in any context, use 📺. For example, "We're so consumed by loose ends that we turn to entertainment to retain sanity 📺".
📺 could be one of the emojis while talking about audiences. Like, "You need to know your audiences before you pull off a show 📺".
While sharing content about or in reference to TV programs, channels, and TV celebrities/stars, use 📺 - "I watched it on today's news, man 📺. Why is it so surprising? I TOO watch the news, kay?" or "Hey, isn't he from that show that made us cry all the time? 📺"

Other Names

📺 TV
📺 Television Set
📺 Vintage TV
📺 Idiot Box
📺 Small Screen
📺 Telly
📺 Television Box

The lowdown

Category: Objects › light & video
Codepoints: U+1F4FA
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :tv::television: Discord
Keywords: television, tv, video

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.