📹 Video camera
📹 Emoji meaning
Video recording, home video, social media, change of perspective.
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📹 Meaning
Someone is watching holiday videos, has made a video of the last night or a new video is being uploaded to social media. In the 80s and 90s, home videos were shot with the video camera. Symbolically, the video camera stands for alertness, the desire for change, self-reflection, objectivity and for changing one's own perspective.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Movie camera vs video camera; both express film-making or recording video.
Video camera vs cinema; camera vs cinema screen, both used when talking about movies.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Video camera” 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.
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In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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