Remote Control Emoji

Unicode has no emoji named remote control: press Copy for the television and control knobs, or pick a button.

Remote Control Emoji

📺🎛️Remote controlU+1F4FA U+1F39B U+FE0FReady to copy

72 items. Tap one to copy it.

Closest emoji 14

Button emoji 17

Remote control symbols 7

Typed remotes 9

Remote drawings 2

Remote lines 7

Remote combos 16

Next step Controllers, joysticks and game symbolsNext: the four speakers, mute to loud

How it works

CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, files tv under one emoji, Television, and control under two, Control knobs and Passport control. So the remote control emoji here is a screen and its controls: 📺🎛️.

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A remote is its buttons

Wikipedia describes a small handheld object with an array of buttons for power, volume and channels. Unicode has most of the array as emoji: 🔼 and 🔽, 🔊 and 🔈, 🔇, ⏯️. The power button is the gap. ⏻ is a plain character, noted by Unicode as the IEEE 1621 power symbol.

Remote, clicker, zapper

Wikipedia gives remote and clicker as the everyday names, and Wiktionary adds zapper for a television’s. CLDR files none of the three. The one emoji it files under power is Low battery, where the combo Dead batteries begins.

Questions and answers

Is there a remote control emoji?

Unicode’s emoji list, version 18.0, has none. The nearest single emoji is 🎛️, control knobs, U+1F39B, from Emoji 0.7, which Unicode notes as audio control. A screen before it makes the meaning plain.

Is there a TV remote emoji?

No emoji has that name. 📺🎛️ reads as TV, control, and in plain keys [o:::] ))) [TV] is a remote, its signal and the set.

Is there a remote control symbol?

No character is named for a remote. Its buttons are characters: ⏻ is Power symbol, ⏏ is Eject symbol, and ▲ and ▼ are plain triangles for channel up and down. ⏻ dates from Unicode 9.0, so an older device may show an empty box.

Is there a remote control car emoji?

Not by that name. CLDR files controller under one emoji, Video game, so the combo Remote control car puts it before Racing car: 🎮🏎️. The plane, the boat and the robot work the same way.

All 72 items

Closest emoji 14

  • Battery U+1F50B. Filed under battery. Emoji 0.6.
  • Button and a screen Radio button, then television.
  • Control knobs U+1F39B U+FE0F. One of two emoji filed under control; the other is Passport control. Unicode notes it as audio control. Emoji 0.7.
  • Couch and lamp U+1F6CB U+FE0F. The only emoji filed under couch. Emoji 0.7.
  • Joystick U+1F579 U+FE0F. Filed under joystick and video. Emoji 0.7.
  • Level slider U+1F39A U+FE0F. The only emoji filed under slider. Emoji 0.7.
  • Low battery U+1FAAB. The only emoji filed under power. Emoji 14.0.
  • Mobile phone U+1F4F1. Filed under mobile and phone. Emoji 0.6.
  • Popcorn U+1F37F. Filed under movie. Emoji 1.0.
  • Radio button U+1F518. Filed under button and radio. Emoji 0.6.
  • Remote control Television, then control knobs.
  • Satellite antenna U+1F4E1. Filed under dish and satellite. Emoji 0.6.
  • Television U+1F4FA. The only emoji filed under tv. Emoji 0.6.
  • Video game U+1F3AE. The only emoji filed under controller. Emoji 0.6.
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Button emoji 17

  • BACK arrow U+1F519. Filed under BACK. Emoji 0.6.
  • Downwards button, for channel down U+1F53D. Filed under down and button. Emoji 0.6.
  • Eject button U+23CF U+FE0F. Filed under eject. Emoji 1.0.
  • Fast reverse button U+23EA. Filed under rewind. Emoji 0.6.
  • Fast-forward button U+23E9. Filed under fast-forward. Emoji 0.6.
  • Input numbers U+1F522. The only emoji filed under numbers. Emoji 0.6.
  • Last track button U+23EE U+FE0F. The only emoji filed under previous. Emoji 0.7.
  • Muted speaker U+1F507. Filed under mute and quiet. Emoji 1.0.
  • Next track button U+23ED U+FE0F. The only emoji filed under next. Emoji 0.7.
  • OK button U+1F197. Filed under OK and button. Emoji 0.6.
  • Play or pause button U+23EF U+FE0F. Filed under play and pause. Emoji 1.0.
  • Record button U+23FA U+FE0F. Filed under record. Emoji 0.7.
  • Red circle, for power U+1F534. Filed under red and circle. Emoji 0.6.
  • Speaker high volume U+1F50A. Filed under volume and loud. Emoji 0.6.
  • Speaker low volume U+1F508. Filed under volume and soft. Emoji 0.7.
  • Stop button U+23F9 U+FE0F. Filed under stop. Emoji 0.7.
  • Upwards button, for channel up U+1F53C. Filed under up and button. Emoji 0.6.

Remote control symbols 7

  • Black down-pointing triangle U+25BC. A plain triangle, for channel down.
  • Black left-pointing triangle U+25C0. A plain triangle, for left or back.
  • Black right-pointing triangle U+25B6. A plain triangle, for right or play.
  • Black up-pointing triangle U+25B2. A plain triangle, for channel up.
  • Eject symbol U+23CF. Unicode notes it as the UI symbol to eject media. The same character as the emoji, with no selector after it.
  • Heavy circle U+2B58. Unicode notes it as the power off symbol.
  • Power symbol U+23FB. Unicode notes it as the IEEE 1621 power symbol. From Unicode 9.0, so an older device may show an empty box.

Typed remotes 9

  • [ |<< ] [ >|| ] [ >>| ] Back, play or pause, and skip, in plain keys.
  • リモコン Rimokon, a remote in Japanese, by Wiktionary: short for rimōto kontorōru.
  • 遙控器 Yáokòngqì, a remote control in Mandarin, by Wiktionary. By Unihan: remote, control, instrument.
  • [CH+] [CH-] Channel up and channel down.
  • [ MUTE ] One button, for the adverts.
  • [o:::] A remote on its side: the power button, then the rest.
  • [o:::] ))) ... Pointed at nothing: no line of sight.
  • [o:::] ))) [TV] The remote, its signal and the set.
  • [VOL-] [VOL+] Volume down and volume up.

Remote drawings 2

  • Remote and television, drawn Six lines: a set on its stand and a small remote pointed at it.
  • Remote control, drawn Nine lines: power at the top, volume and channel under it, then the number pad.

Remote lines 7

  • do not change the channel. I am watching this For a nap on the sofa.
  • I had the remote first For a dispute.
  • lost: one remote. last seen: sofa For a notice.
  • pass the clicker Clicker is an everyday name for it, by Wikipedia.
  • the remote is under you. it is always under you For whoever is on the sofa.
  • three remotes and none of them is the right one For a coffee table.
  • who has the remote For the family chat.

Remote combos 16

  • A remote in four buttons Red circle, then upwards button, then downwards button, then OK button.
  • Air conditioner remote Control knobs, then snowflake.
  • Change the channel Television, then upwards button, then downwards button.
  • Channel surfing Television, then water wave.
  • Dead batteries Low battery, then television, then control knobs.
  • Garage door clicker Radio button, then automobile, then house.
  • Lost down the sofa Couch and lamp, then magnifying glass tilted left, then control knobs.
  • Mute the adverts Television, then muted speaker.
  • New batteries Battery, twice, then control knobs.
  • Remote control boat Video game, then speedboat.
  • Remote control car Video game, then racing car.
  • Remote control plane Video game, then airplane.
  • Remote control robot Video game, then robot.
  • TV louder Television, then control knobs, then speaker high volume.
  • TV quieter Television, then control knobs, then speaker low volume.
  • Universal remote Control knobs, then television, then radio, then dvd.

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 remote control: 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 remote, remote control, clicker or zapper. CLDR files tv under one emoji, Television (U+1F4FA, Emoji 0.6); control under two, Control knobs (U+1F39B, Emoji 0.7) and Passport control; controller under Video game alone; power under Low battery alone; couch under Couch and lamp alone; numbers under Input numbers alone; next under Next track button and previous under Last track button alone; nothing under channel. The notes on Control knobs (audio control), Power symbol (U+23FB: IEEE 1621 power symbol; added in Unicode 9.0 by DerivedAge.txt), Heavy circle (U+2B58: power off symbol) and Eject symbol (U+23CF: UI symbol to eject media) 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 remote control is also known as a remote or clicker, that it operates another device from a distance, that it is usually a small wireless handheld object with an array of buttons for functions such as power, volume and channels, that infrared remotes need line of sight, that universal remotes exist and that garage remotes are also called clickers, is from Wikipedia, Remote control (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_control, CC BY-SA 4.0); channel surfing, also called zapping or channel hopping, is from Wikipedia, Channel surfing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_surfing). That a remote control operates an appliance like a television, vehicle or mechanical toy, that zapper is a colloquial word for a television remote and clicker a slang one, and the Japanese and Mandarin words, are from Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/remote_control, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zapper, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clicker, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/リモコン and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/遙控器, 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 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.

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