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📠 Fax machine

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📠 Emoji meaning

There's news! Send documents, urgent, old-school.

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📠 Meaning

I’ve got news! Common communication device of the 80s and 90s for transferring documents. Is considered old-fashioned, but still used in companies. Symbolically, it stands for trouble-free communication, the establishment of a contact, the longing for communication, or something needs quick settlement and remedy.

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Commonly confused with

Direction Variant

Fax machine

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Rolled-up newspaper

Rolled-up newspaper vs fax machine; both long rectangles with text imagery, used for office or news communication.

Same Shape

Fax machine

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Mobile phone off

Fax machine vs mobile phone off; both boxy devices with phone symbolism, context clarifies ‘office’ vs ‘off’.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Fax machine” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ communication + machine

Keywords removed

- fax machine

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ fax machine

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ fax

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- fax

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