floppy disk

Group: Objects · Subgroup: Computer · Emoji 0.6

Keywords

computer
disk
floppy

About this character

floppy disk belongs to the Objects group and is encoded at U+1F4BE. It was added in Unicode 0.6.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F4BE
Hex: 1F4BE
Decimal: 128190
HTML: 💾
CSS: \1F4BE
JavaScript: \u{1F4BE}
Python: \U0001F4BE
UTF-8: F0 9F 92 BE

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

battery U+1F50B
low battery U+1FAAB
electric plug U+1F50C
laptop U+1F4BB
desktop computer U+1F5A5
printer U+1F5A8
keyboard U+2328
computer mouse U+1F5B1
trackball U+1F5B2
computer disk U+1F4BD
optical disk U+1F4BF
dvd U+1F4C0
abacus U+1F9EE

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.