Laser began as an acronym, light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, by Wikipedia. CLDR, Unicode’s search word list, files light under 15 emoji and laser under none. So the laser emoji here is Flashlight then Red circle.
Read the full guide
Why a flashlight and a red dot
By Wikipedia, the beam of a typical laser pointer is invisible in clean air and shows only as a point of light where it lands. So the pair is the light, then its spot. High voltage is the only emoji under zap, and Mirror ball the only one under disco.
Beams from the keyboard
Three box-drawing characters make a straight beam in three weights: ─ is light, ━ is heavy and ═ is double. Repeat one to the length you need. The ASCII beam, [==]- - - - - *, goes where everything else is refused.
A lasers emoji, in the plural, is the combo Lasers in three colours: 🔴🟢🟣, three colours pointers come in.
Questions and answers
Is there a laser emoji?
Not by that name. Unicode’s emoji list, version 18.0, has no laser. 🔦🔴, Flashlight then Red circle, is the nearest pair.
Is there a laser beam emoji?
No. The combo Laser beam puts two Minus signs between the flashlight and the dot: 🔦➖➖🔴. Add more of them for a longer beam.
Is there a laser emoticon?
Typed ones. The laser beam emoticon is [==]━━━━━━━━•: a pointer, a heavy beam and its dot. (◉_◉)━━━━━━ is a face with a beam from its eyes.
What is the pew pew laser emoticon?
Pew stands for the sound of a blaster in science fiction, by Wiktionary. Here it is ⚡⚡💥, the combo Laser pew pew, or typed: pew pew ━ ━ ━.
All 50 items
Closest emoji 15
🎯BullseyeU+1F3AF. The only emoji filed under target. Emoji 0.6.
🐈CatU+1F408. Filed under cat and pet. Emoji 0.7.
💥CollisionU+1F4A5. Filed under boom and collide. Emoji 0.6.
🔦FlashlightU+1F526. One of 15 emoji filed under light. The only one filed under torch. This page's pick for the pointer. Emoji 0.6.
🛸Flying saucerU+1F6F8. Filed under UFO and saucer. Emoji 5.0.
🟢Green circleU+1F7E2. Filed under green and circle. Emoji 12.0.
⚡High voltageU+26A1. The only emoji filed under zap. Emoji 0.6.
🔦🔴LaserFlashlight, then red circle.
💡Light bulbU+1F4A1. Filed under light and bulb. Emoji 0.6.
🪩Mirror ballU+1FAA9. The only emoji filed under disco. Emoji 14.0.
🚨Police car lightU+1F6A8. Filed under light, beacon and revolving. Emoji 0.6.
🟣Purple circleU+1F7E3. Filed under purple and circle. Emoji 12.0.
🔴Red circleU+1F534. Filed under red and circle. This page's pick for the dot. Emoji 0.6.
🤖RobotU+1F916. Filed under robot and face. Emoji 1.0.
✨SparklesU+2728. Filed under sparkle and sparkles. Emoji 0.6.
Show all 50 items (35 more)
Beam characters 7
═Box drawings double horizontalU+2550. A twin beam.
━Box drawings heavy horizontalU+2501. The thick beam.
─Box drawings light horizontalU+2500. The thin beam. Repeat it to any length.
┄Box drawings light triple dash horizontalU+2504. A beam in pulses.
•BulletU+2022. The dot at the end of the beam.
◉FisheyeU+25C9. A lens, seen from the front.
✹Twelve pointed black starU+2739. A burst where the beam lands.
Laser text emoticons 8
( •_•)σ━━━━━•A face pointing a beam at the wall.
(◉_◉)━━━━━━A face with a beam from its eyes.
=^..^= •A cat that has seen the dot.
[==]- - - - - *ASCII only, for fields that refuse everything else.
[==]─────────✹A thin beam ending in a burst.
[==]━━━━━━━━•A pointer, a heavy beam and its dot.
[==]═════════A twin beam.
pew pew ━ ━ ━Three short shots and the sound.
Laser drawings 2
Direct hitThree lines: a pointer, a beam and a burst.
Laser show, drawnFive lines: three beams from one projector. Needs monospaced text.
Laser lines 5
the cat has spotted the red dotFor a pet photo.
laser focus. back in an hourFor a do-not-disturb status.
lights down, lasers upFor a show night.
pew pew pewThe sound, three times.
pew pew, homework is doneFor a finished to-do list.
Laser combos 13
🐈💨🔴Cat and the red dotCat, then dashing away, then red circle.
🔦➖🟢Green laserFlashlight, then minus, then green circle.
🔦➖➖🔴Laser beamFlashlight, then minus, twice, then red circle.
👀➖🎯Laser focusEyes, then minus, then bullseye.
⚡⚡💥Laser pew pewHigh voltage, twice, then collision.
👉🔴Laser pointerBackhand index pointing right, then red circle.
🔦🖨️Laser printerFlashlight, then printer.
🪩🔦✨Laser showMirror ball, then flashlight, then sparkles.
🔴🟢🟣Lasers in three coloursRed circle, then green circle, then purple circle.
🤖➖💥Robot laserRobot, then minus, then collision.
🛸⚡Saucer beamFlying saucer, then high voltage.
📊🔴Slide pointerBar chart, then red circle.
🔴➖🚨Tripped the alarmRed circle, then minus, then police car light.
How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. 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). Unicode has no emoji named laser: no emoji name, no CLDR search word and no character name in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), holds laser, lasers or lazer, and CLDR files nothing under beam or pointer. CLDR files light under 15 emoji (Flashlight and Light bulb among them), torch under Flashlight alone, zap under High voltage alone, disco under Mirror ball alone and target under Bullseye alone. The names of the beam characters are from UnicodeData.txt. That laser began as an acronym, light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, is from Wikipedia, Laser (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser, CC BY-SA 4.0); that a laser pointer marks a spot with a small bright dot, that its beam is invisible in clean air until it lands, and that pointers come in red, green and bluish violet is from Wikipedia, Laser pointer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_pointer); what a laser light show is, from Wikipedia, Laser lighting display (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_lighting_display); that pew stands for the sound of a blaster in science fiction, from Wiktionary, pew (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pew, CC BY-SA 4.0). The typed lines, the drawings, the caption lines and the combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.