pager

pager meaning

A pager or beeper. It is a genuinely obsolete object, used to send short numeric messages before mobile phones existed. It survives in a few settings — some hospitals still use pagers, because they work where mobile signal does not. As an emoji it is used almost entirely for nostalgia and jokes about being old.

Meaning

A pager or beeper. It is a genuinely obsolete object, used to send short numeric messages before mobile phones existed. It survives in a few settings — some hospitals still use pagers, because they work where mobile signal does not. As an emoji it is used almost entirely for nostalgia and jokes about being old.

Trend over time

Wikipedia pageviews (CC-BY-SA) — Pager

How to use it

• Some hospitals genuinely still use these 📟
• Beep me 📟
• Peak 1995 technology 📟

How it looks

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Google Noto Color Emoji — SIL OFL 1.1 (font) / Apache 2.0 (code).

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Twemoji by Twitter/X contributors — CC-BY-4.0 (jdecked/twemoji).

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OpenMoji by the HfG Karlsruhe — CC-BY-SA-4.0.

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Blobmoji — Apache-2.0 (derivative of Noto).

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This emoji in other languages

Available in 100 languages

Technical details

Codepoints

U+1F4DF U+FE0F

Emoji version

0.6

Shortcodes

:pager:

Category

Objects

FAQ

What does the pager emoji (📟️) mean?

A pager or beeper. It is a genuinely obsolete object, used to send short numeric messages before mobile phones existed. It survives in a few settings — some hospitals still use pagers, because they work where mobile signal does not. As an emoji it is used almost entirely for nostalgia and jokes about being old.

How do you type the pager emoji?

Copy the pager emoji 📟️ directly from this page and paste it anywhere — messages, social media, documents, or code. On mobile, long-press to copy.

What category is the pager emoji in?

The pager emoji belongs to the Objects category.