CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, files record under two emoji, a movie camera and a button you press. Neither plays, so the record player emoji here is a pair: Optical disk, then Musical notes.
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Four names, and none in Unicode
Wikipedia gives the machine four: phonograph, later gramophone, record player since the 1940s, and more recently turntable. CLDR files nothing under any of them, or under vinyl. Disk leads to four emoji; disc, with a c, leads only to Flying disc. Groove leads to the two dancers.
A record from plain characters
◉ is a disc with a label. ℗ is the nearest Unicode comes to a record: its notes on the character read published and phonorecord sign. 33⅓ rpm is the speed of an LP, with the third as one character.
📯💿 is a gramophone: Postal horn is the horn, and the disk sits under it.
Questions and answers
Is there a record player emoji?
Not by that name. Unicode’s emoji list, version 18.0, has a radio, a headphone, a CD and a DVD, and nothing with a platter. 💿🎶, Optical disk then Musical notes, is the nearest pair.
Is there a turntable or vinyl emoticon?
Typed ones. [(◉)/] is a deck from above with the arm on the record, ((◉)) is a record alone, and (◴)(◷)(◶)(◵) is one turning, a quarter at a time.
Is there a turntable DJ emoticon?
d(^_^)b [(◉)|(◉)] is a face in headphones behind two decks. Wikipedia describes turntablism as two or more turntables and a mixer, so the combo DJ decks puts Level slider between two disks: 🎧💿🎚️💿.
What does the P in a circle on a record mean?
Notice of copyright in the sound recording, by Wikipedia, which adds that the P stands for phonogram. The character is ℗, U+2117, and it marks LPs, tapes and compact discs alike.
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Closest emoji 18
⚫Black circleU+26AB. Unicode’s note on its character: UI symbol for record function. Emoji 0.6.
🎛️Control knobsU+1F39B U+FE0F. Filed under music and knobs. Emoji 0.7.
🌀CycloneU+1F300. Filed under cyclone and dizzy. Emoji 0.6.
📀DVDU+1F4C0. Filed under disk and CD. Emoji 0.6.
🥏Flying discU+1F94F. The only emoji filed under disc. That is the spelling with a c. Emoji 11.0.
📯💿GramophonePostal horn, then optical disk.
🎧HeadphoneU+1F3A7. Filed under headphone and sound. Emoji 0.6.
🎚️Level sliderU+1F39A U+FE0F. Filed under music and slider. Emoji 0.7.
🕺Man dancingU+1F57A. The other emoji filed under groove. Emoji 3.0.
🎶Musical notesU+1F3B6. Filed under music and notes. Emoji 0.6.
💿Optical diskU+1F4BF. One of four emoji filed under disk. Also filed under CD. Emoji 0.6.
📯Postal hornU+1F4EF. Filed under horn and post. Emoji 1.0.
📻RadioU+1F4FB. Filed under radio and entertainment. Emoji 0.6.
⏺️Record buttonU+23FA U+FE0F. One of two emoji filed under record: the kind you press. Emoji 0.7.
💿🎶Record playerOptical disk, then musical notes.
🪡Sewing needleU+1FAA1. Filed under needle and thread. Emoji 13.0.
🔊Speaker high volumeU+1F50A. Filed under music and loud. Emoji 0.6.
💃Woman dancingU+1F483. One of two emoji filed under groove. Emoji 0.6.
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Record shapes 6
⏺Black circle for recordU+23FA. Unicode’s note: record. The button again, as a plain character.
◎BullseyeU+25CE. A disc with one groove.
⦿Circled bulletU+29BF. A small record with a wide rim.
◉FisheyeU+25C9. A disc with a label in the middle. One plain character.
℗Sound recording copyrightU+2117. A P in a circle, for phonogram. Unicode’s notes: published, phonorecord sign.
◷White circle with upper right quadrantU+25F7. A circle with one quarter marked: a record caught mid-turn.
Turntable and vinyl emoticons 9
((◉))A record alone, with one groove.
(◴)(◷)(◶)(◵)A record at four quarter turns: going round.
[(◉)/]A deck from above: a record with the arm resting on it.
[(◉)]=[|||]=[(◉)]Two decks with a mixer between them.
唱片Chàngpiàn, a record in Chinese, by Wiktionary: sing, slice.
33⅓ rpmThe speed of an LP, by Wikipedia. The third is one character.
45 rpmThe speed of a single, by Wikipedia.
d(^_^)b [(◉)|(◉)]A face in headphones behind two decks.
[(o)/]The same deck in plain ASCII.
Record player drawings 3
Gramophone with a horn, drawnEight lines: a flared horn over a wind-up box.
Record in its sleeve, drawnSix lines: a record sliding out of a square sleeve.
Turntable from above, drawnEight lines: the platter, a record with its label, the arm and two buttons. Needs monospaced text.
Record lines 6
found it on vinylFor a record shop photo.
needle down, phone awayFor a quiet evening.
now spinning: ___For a status line. Fill in the record.
side A is over. somebody flip itFor a room with one record player.
sunday: records and nothing elseFor a day off.
this one skips at the good partFor a record that has been played a lot.
Record player combos 12
🪙💿🎶Coin in the jukeboxCoin, then optical disk, then musical notes.
📦💿👀Crate diggingPackage, then optical disk, then eyes.
💿💃🕺Dancing to a recordOptical disk, then woman dancing, then man dancing.
🎧💿🎚️💿DJ decksHeadphone, then optical disk, then level slider, then optical disk.
💿💨Dusty recordOptical disk, then dashing away.
💿🔄Flip to side BOptical disk, then counterclockwise arrows button.
🪡💿Needle dropSewing needle, then optical disk.
💿✨🎵Old format, new songOptical disk, then sparkles, then musical note.
💿🔊Played loudOptical disk, then speaker high volume.
💿💿💿Record collectionOptical disk, three times.
💿🛍️Record shopOptical disk, then shopping bags.
💿🎶🌙Vinyl nightOptical disk, then musical notes, then crescent moon.
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 record player: 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 record player, turntable, vinyl, gramophone, phonograph or jukebox. CLDR files record under two emoji (Movie camera, Record button), disk under four (Computer disk, Floppy disk, Optical disk, DVD), CD under Optical disk and DVD, disc under Flying disc alone, groove under Woman dancing and Man dancing, and nothing under DJ. Optical disk is U+1F4BF, Emoji 0.6. The notes on U+2117 (published, phonorecord sign), U+23FA (record) and U+26AB (UI symbol for record function) are from Unicode’s names list (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). The meanings of the Han characters are the kDefinition lines of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). That a phonograph was later called a gramophone, since the 1940s a record player and more recently a turntable is from Wikipedia, Phonograph (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph, CC BY-SA 4.0); the speeds of a single (45 rpm) and an LP (33⅓ rpm) from Wikipedia, Phonograph record (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_record); that the P in ℗ stands for phonogram from Wikipedia, Sound recording copyright symbol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_recording_copyright_symbol); that turntablism typically uses two or more turntables and a mixer from Wikipedia, Turntablism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turntablism). That a record player is a device for playing phonograph records, with gramophone, phonograph and turntable as other names, and that vinyl means phonograph records or one record, is from Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/record_player and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vinyl, CC BY-SA 4.0); the Chinese word 唱片 (chàngpiàn), a phonograph record, is from Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/唱片). 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 and Unihan 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.