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🎤Microphone Emoji
🎤 microphone — U+1F3A4, added in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode groups it with the other 9 music emojis under Objects.
What 🎤 microphone means
Lyrics quoted in a caption almost always get 🎵 or 🎶 wrapped around them, which is the most common use in this group by a wide margin. 🎧️ marks what someone is listening to, 🎤 covers singing and karaoke plans, and the studio microphone 🎙️ has become the default badge for podcasts. The level sliders and control knobs stay mostly with producers.
Unicode tags this one karaoke, mic and music and files it under Objects → Music.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3A4 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🎤 | |
| HTML decimal | 🎤 | |
| CSS | \1F3A4 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3A4} | |
| Python | \U0001F3A4 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFA4 | |
| Rust | \u{1f3a4} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3A4} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3A4} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8E%A4 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E A4 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFA4 | |
| Base64 | 8J+OpA== | |
| Decimal | 127908 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🎤
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “microphone”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “karaoke”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3a4and 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 🎤 microphone emoji mean?+
🎤 is the microphone emoji, tagged karaoke, mic and music. Lyrics quoted in a caption almost always get 🎵 or 🎶 wrapped around them, which is the most common use in this group by a wide margin. 🎧️ marks what someone is listening to, 🎤 covers singing and karaoke plans, and the studio microphone 🎙️ has become the default badge for podcasts. The level sliders and control knobs stay mostly with producers.
What is the Unicode code for 🎤?+
microphone is U+1F3A4. In HTML that is 🎤, in CSS \1F3A4, and in JavaScript \u{1F3A4}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🎤 emoji added?+
microphone got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Music in Objects.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🎤 microphone.