Database Emoji

No true database emoji exists, so press Copy for 🗄️ or take the cylinder, a status line or a combo.

Database Emoji

🗄️File cabinetU+1F5C4 U+FE0FReady to copy

40 emoji. Tap one to copy it.

The nearest to a database 6

Data, queries and joins 6

Disks, machines and the cloud 6

Database shapes in plain text 5

Status lines 7

ASCII databases 2

Database combos 8

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Next step Every object emoji, the files and disks among them Next: the camera symbols

How it works

No emoji is named database, and none is filed under the word. File cabinet, U+1F5C4, sits above Copy instead. Under it are 39 tiles: the cylinder, data and queries, machines, plain-text shapes, status lines, drawings and combos.

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The cylinder

Diagrams draw a database as a cylinder. 🛢️, Oil drum, is the only emoji with that shape. In plain text, ⛁ is a draughts king, two pieces stacked, and reads as the same stack of disks at text size.

Filed under data

CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files three emoji under data: 📊 Bar chart and the two chart lines. It files four under file, 🗄️ among them. Search database, query or join and this page finds the tiles it added those words to.

Tips

For a status page, the lines are ready: Database down, Backup done, Query running.
⛁ and ⛃ are text, not emoji, so they keep the colour of the words around them.
The ASCII cylinder needs a monospaced font, such as a code block, to keep its sides straight.

Questions and answers

Is there a database emoji?

No. No emoji name and no CLDR search word holds database. 🗄️ File cabinet and 🛢️ Oil drum are the usual stand-ins, and ⛁ draws the stacked-disk shape in plain text.

What emoji means data?

CLDR files three: 📊 Bar chart, 📈 Chart increasing and 📉 Chart decreasing. For stored data rather than a chart, 🗄️ and 💾 read more clearly.

What is the server emoji?

There is none either. 🖥️ Desktop computer is the nearest machine, and ☁️ Cloud stands in for servers someone else runs.

All 40 emoji

The nearest to a database 6

Card file box U+1F5C3 U+FE0F. A box of index cards, one card per record. Emoji 0.7.
Card index U+1F4C7. A rotary card index. CLDR lists old and rolodex. Emoji 0.6.
File cabinet U+1F5C4 U+FE0F. No emoji is named or filed under database, so this page starts with the filing cabinet, the oldest kind of records store. It has a text form. Emoji 0.7.
File folder U+1F4C1. A closed folder. CLDR files it under file, with three others. Emoji 0.6.
Oil drum U+1F6E2 U+FE0F. A drum on its side: the cylinder that stands for a database in most diagrams, and the nearest emoji shape to it. Emoji 0.7.
Open file folder U+1F4C2. An open folder. Emoji 0.6.

Data, queries and joins 6

Abacus U+1F9EE. The oldest calculator. Emoji 11.0. Emoji 11.0.
Bar chart U+1F4CA. A bar chart. One of three emoji CLDR files under data. Emoji 0.6.
Chart increasing U+1F4C8. A line going up, also filed under data, as is its twin going down. Emoji 0.6.
Input numbers U+1F522. The digits 1234 in a box. Emoji 0.6.
Link U+1F517. Two links of chain, for a relation or a join. Emoji 0.6.
Magnifying glass tilted left U+1F50D. A magnifying glass, for a search or a query. CLDR lists search. Emoji 0.6.

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Disks, machines and the cloud 6

Cloud U+2601 U+FE0F. A cloud, for a database kept on someone else's machines. It has a text form. Emoji 0.6.
Desktop computer U+1F5A5 U+FE0F. A computer with a monitor. It has a text form. Emoji 0.7.
Floppy disk U+1F4BE. The save icon of old software. Emoji 0.6.
Laptop U+1F4BB. A laptop. It has a text form. Emoji 0.6.
Optical disk U+1F4BF. A disc for a backup copy. It has a text form. Emoji 0.6.
Technologist U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F4BB. A person at a laptop. CLDR lists coder and developer. It takes skin tones. Emoji 12.1.

Database shapes in plain text 5

Cylindricity U+232D Cylindricity. The engineering sign for how round a cylinder is, a circle between two slanted lines.
One disk, outline U+26C0 White draughts man. A single draughts piece: a cylinder seen from the side, one layer high.
Rows U+2261 Identical to. Three bars, a table of rows. Unicode names it Identical to.
Stacked disks, filled U+26C3 Black draughts king. The black draughts king, the same stack filled in.
Stacked disks, outline U+26C1 White draughts king. Two draughts stacked into a king: the same stacked-cylinder shape as a database. Text, not an emoji.

Status lines 7

💿 Backup done After the nightly copy
🗄️ Database down For a status message during an outage
🔧 Maintenance until ___ Type the time over the blank
🔍 Query running While you wait for the result
📊 Report ready When the numbers are in
💾 Saved For a change that went through
🗄️ Table: ___ Type the table name over the blank

ASCII databases 2

Database cylinder The usual database drawing, 11 columns wide
Table of records Two rows and a header, 14 columns wide

Database combos 8

Backup, locked away Floppy disk, then locked.
Cloud database Cloud, then file cabinet.
Database on fire File cabinet, then fire: an outage.
Developer and database Technologist, then file cabinet.
From data to a chart Oil drum, then bar chart.
Growing data Chart increasing, then file cabinet.
Joined tables Link, then file cabinet.
Search the records File cabinet, then magnifying glass.

How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-24, not typed by hand. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt), in sentence case. The search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml, main branch): no emoji name or search word holds database; CLDR files three emoji under data (chart increasing, chart decreasing, bar chart) and four under file (file folder, open file folder, card file box, file cabinet). Words such as database, db, query and join in the search box are this site's own additions. The plain characters and their names are from https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, their versions from https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt and emoji status from https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt; text forms from https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. The status lines, the drawings and the combo names are this site's own work. Checked 2026-09-24. Licence: own work