Telephone receiver emoji 📞
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F4DE
What 📞 means
Telephone receiver 📞 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: communication, phone, receiver, telephone, voip.
Those words also drive emoji search: try communication or phone on your phone to find 📞.
On the emoji keyboard, 📞 sits with the phones (6 emoji) inside objects, which has 268 emoji, for example 📟 📠 📱 📲.
Will 📞 show on my friend's phone?
📞 has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type 📞
To find 📞 quickly, type telephone receiver into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type telephone receiver.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type telephone receiver in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type telephone receiver.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 📞 as one code point, U+1F4DE: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F4DE | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 📞 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 📞 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F4DE"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4DE} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%93%9E | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 93 9E |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 📞 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | telephone receiver |
| Português | telefone |
| Español | auricular de teléfono |
| Italiano | cornetta |
| Français | combiné téléphonique |
| Deutsch | Telefonhörer |
| Türkçe | ahize |
| Bahasa Indonesia | gagang telepon |
| Polski | słuchawka telefoniczna |
| Русский | телефонная трубка |
| 日本語 | 受話器 |
| 한국어 | 수화기 |
More emoji like this
All objects emoji →Questions people ask
What does the telephone receiver emoji mean?
Unicode calls 📞 "telephone receiver" and links it with communication, phone, receiver, telephone. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the phones subgroup of objects.
When was the telephone receiver 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 telephone receiver emoji?
To find 📞 quickly, type telephone receiver into the emoji search.