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📻 Radio
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📻 Emoji meaning
Radio, music, news, communication, knowledge.
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📻 Meaning
I just heard it on the radio! An old-fashioned, portable radio for receiving broadcasts or music. Refers to listening to music, news or sports. Symbolically, it stands for communication, exchange and knowledge.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Radio vs television; both broadcasting devices, small screen details can be hard to see.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Radio” 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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+ entertainment + tbt
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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+ radio
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ video
