Game Emoji PNG
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People play games all the time! That’s why game emojis often come in handy, and you might want to know their whole meaning and usage rules. Here, we’ll talk about three icons representing different families of games. The Game Die emoji is a classic symbol of board games, the Joker represents card games, while the name of the Video Game emoji speaks for itself.
Yet, their interpretation and the way you can use these icons go far beyond their literal meaning!
Meaning and Use of the Game Emoji
🎲 To understand the situations where we can opt for the Game Die emoji, let’s explore the symbolic meaning of dice. Across cultures, dice symbolize the randomness of life and its unpredictability. They represent things like chance, fate, and fortune.
The most obvious context for using the Game Die emoji in your posts or when texting is the literal one—to represent something related to board or card games. For instance, maybe you want to invite someone to play Dungeons and Dragons.
Also, you can use it in its symbolic meaning, to say that there’s something you can’t control, in a situation where the outcome depends on luck. For instance, you start a risky project or relationship.
🎮 Unlike the dice emoji, the Video Game emoji doesn’t have much symbolism and is more often used in its literal meaning. When someone asks what you’re doing right now, what’s the fastest way to say about it than a console gamepad icon?
Another situation is when you want to invite someone to a video game session. You can use it in a broader meaning when you’re immersed in a situation with something that feels unreal or even fantastic.
🃏 Use the Joker emoji in the following situations:
- To talk about a game of cards.
- When you prank someone, when someone pranks you, or when talking about a prank.
- To refer to the Joker character (Batman’s infamous antagonist).
- To acknowledge you’ve done something silly.
In a way, it is similar to the Dice emoji. It also has a deep symbolic meaning that goes back centuries, if not thousands of years, and is universally understood across cultures. The Joker is an extremely powerful card that can change the course of the game. At the same time, it’s highly random, the symbol of wild chance.
You may ask how you draw the line between the Joker and the clown emojis. The clown icon may seem somewhat similar, but it’s simpler and more likely to be used in a derogatory way. The Joker emoji, by contrast, represents the court jester, a person who had a certain status and protection. He wore items mirroring monarchial symbols: the cap and bells were a kind of crown, while the marotte represented a scepter. The Joker could stay unpunished for words that would have cost a life if someone else had said them.
Technical Information
🎲 The Game Die emoji was approved in 2010 as part of the Unicode 6.0 collection. In 2015, it was published within Emoji 1.0.
Alternative names: “Dice.”
Code: U+1F3B2.
🎮 The Video Game emoji was first published in the Unicode 6.0 release (2010), and in 2015, was added to Emoji 1.0.
Alternative names: “Xbox,” “Gamepad,” “Wii U,” and “Playstation.”
Also, in the Apple family, it exists under the name of Video Game Controller.
Code: U+1F3AE
🃏 The Joker emoji was introduced in the Unicode 6.0 release (2010) as “Playing Card Black Joker” and became part of Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Alternative name: “Joker Card.”
Code: U+1F0CF.
Conclusion
Some people see life as a game, and others don’t. There’s also another group that draws the line between situations where the game is appropriate and where you have to be serious. Irrespective of where you personally stand here, the game topic is so ubiquitous that you can’t escape it. Hopefully, the description above has given you a couple of new ideas on how to use game emojis in a safe and fun way.
