pager
A pager is a small wireless device that receives short text messages or numeric codes, often used before mobile phones became common
Meaning
A pager is a small wireless device that receives short text messages or numeric codes, often used before mobile phones became common. In conversation, it commonly represents pagers themselves, on-call or emergency work, or nostalgia for 1990s technology. It can also suggest being summoned, reachable, or waiting for an urgent message. Some people use it for hospital or medical contexts, where pagers remain in use. Usage varies: it may be read literally as a device or loosely as a symbol of old-school communication, so context matters.
Pager — Approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.
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Names from Unicode CLDR 48.2.1 — official Unicode data.
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Unicode data
U+1F4DFpagerF0 9F 93 9FShortcodes
:pager:HTML & CSS
📟📟\1F4DF Languages
\u{1F4DF}\U0001F4DF\x{1F4DF}\u{1F4DF}Encodings
xn--4t8h%F0%9F%93%9FFrequently asked
What does 📟 pager mean?
A pager is a small wireless device that receives short text messages or numeric codes, often used before mobile phones became common. In conversation, it commonly represents pagers themselves, on-call or emergency work, or nostalgia for 1990s technology. It can also suggest being summoned, reachable, or waiting for an urgent message. Some people use it for hospital or medical contexts, where pagers remain in use. Usage varies: it may be read literally as a device or loosely as a symbol of old-school communication, so context matters.
What are the Unicode codepoints and shortcode for 📟 pager?
U+1F4DF (Unicode 6.0, 2010) · :pager:
Which emojis are related to 📟 pager?
📱 mobile phone, 📲 mobile phone with arrow, ☎️ telephone, 📞 telephone receiver, 📠 fax machine