Microphone emoji 🎤
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F3A4
What 🎤 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Microphone 🎤 is tagged with these keywords: karaoke, mic, music, sing, sound.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing karaoke or mic in the emoji search brings up 🎤.
Microphone 🎤 is one of 9 emoji in the music subgroup of objects (268 emoji), next to 🎧 📻 🎼 🎵.
Will 🎤 show on my friend's phone?
🎤 is one of the original emoji: it comes from the Japanese phone sets and is listed in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Every phone, computer and app shows it.
How to type 🎤
Any emoji picker finds 🎤 when you search for microphone.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type microphone.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type microphone in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type microphone.
Codes for developers
Microphone 🎤 is a single code point, U+1F3A4. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F3A4 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🎤 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🎤 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F3A4"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3A4} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%8E%A4 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E A4 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🎤 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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All objects emoji →Questions people ask
What does the microphone emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🎤 "microphone" and links it with karaoke, mic, music, sing. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the music subgroup of objects.
When was the microphone emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the microphone emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🎤 when you search for microphone.