video game Emoji

The video game emoji represents a sport, game, hobby, or event-related activity, commonly used to indicate plans ("let's play"), interests, or to add a celebratory or activity-specific visual accent to a message or post.

Category context: The Activities category covers sports, games, arts and crafts, and event-related symbols — commonly used to represent hobbies, plans, and celebrations in casual conversation and event promotion.

Cataloged under Game within the Activities category, video game is the 37th of 85 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 0.6 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F3AE.

💡 Good to know: Rendering style for sport equipment and game pieces can vary between platforms — check how it displays on your target audience's primary devices if visual accuracy matters.