Video camera

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Shortcode: :video_camera:
Unicode: U+1F4F9
HTML: 📹
CSS: \1F4F9
JavaScript: "\u{1F4F9}"
URL: %F0%9F%93%B9

What 📹 means

A handheld camcorder. It stands for recording video, home videos and filming.

People use it for vlogs, “recording now,” video calls and footage of events. It has a slight home-video feel, like a family camcorder. It can also mean security footage or a request to film something.

Facts

Video camera 📹 is an emoji in the objects category, under light video. 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 :video_camera:. People also look for it with words like “camcorder”, “camera”, “tbt”, or “video”.