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🗨️Left Speech Bubble Emoji
Tagged balloon, bubble and dialog, 🗨️ left speech bubble sits in Unicode's Emotions group inside Smileys & Emotion. It was introduced in Emoji 2.0 (2015) at U+1F5E8 U+FE0F.
What 🗨️ left speech bubble means
Most of this set is manga vocabulary rather than emotion in the usual sense - 💢 for a popping vein, 💫 for seeing stars, 💦 for sweat, 💤 for sleep. They work as annotations on other emoji more than alone. 💯 comes from the red 100 a Japanese teacher marks on a perfect paper, and now just means full agreement.
Unicode tags this one balloon, bubble and dialog and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Emotions.
Copy variants
left speech bubble carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🗨️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 🗨U+1F5E8left speech bubble
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F5E8 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🗨️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🗨️ | |
| CSS | \1F5E8\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F5E8}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F5E8\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDDE8\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f5e8}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F5E8}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F5E8}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%97%A8%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 97 A8 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DDE8 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+XqO+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128488 65039 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 2.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🗨️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “left speech bubble”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “balloon”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f5e8and Enter. - HTML — paste
🗨️.
How 🗨️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🗨️Apple
- 🗨️Segoe
- 🗨️Noto
- 🗨️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🗨️ left speech bubble emoji mean?+
🗨️ is the left speech bubble emoji, tagged balloon, bubble and dialog. Most of this set is manga vocabulary rather than emotion in the usual sense - 💢 for a popping vein, 💫 for seeing stars, 💦 for sweat, 💤 for sleep. They work as annotations on other emoji more than alone. 💯 comes from the red 100 a Japanese teacher marks on a perfect paper, and now just means full agreement.
What is the Unicode code for 🗨️?+
left speech bubble is U+1F5E8 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🗨️, in CSS \1F5E8\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F5E8}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🗨️ emoji added?+
left speech bubble got its emoji presentation in Emoji 2.0 (2015). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Emotions in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Emoji 2.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🗨️ left speech bubble.