Pager
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- Shortcode
:pager:- Unicode
U+1F4DF- HTML
📟- CSS
\1F4DF- JavaScript
"\u{1F4DF}"- URL
%F0%9F%93%9F
What ๐ means
A small pager, or beeper, that shows short messages. It stands for being paged, being on call, and retro tech.
On-call engineers, doctors and nurses use it when they get paged in the night. Others use it for nostalgia about pagers and old cell phones. It can also mean โurgent messageโ in a playful way.
Facts
Pager ๐ is an emoji in the objects category, under phone. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :pager:. People also look for it with words like โcommunicationโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2020
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2018
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.