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🔈️Speaker Low Volume Emoji
🔈️ speaker low volume is encoded at U+1F508 U+FE0F and shipped with Unicode 7.0 (2014). Unicode files it under Objects → Sound, alongside 8 related emojis.
What 🔈️ speaker low volume means
Volume states, announcements and notification talk. The four speaker glyphs 🔇 through 🔊 read as a ramp, so people use them to mark something getting louder or to warn that a clip needs sound on. 📢 and 📣 head up announcements and calls to action, while 🔔 borrows its meaning from the notification bells built into YouTube and most apps.
Unicode tags this one low, soft and sound and files it under Objects → Sound.
Copy variants
speaker low volume 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+1F508speaker low volume
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F508 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🔈️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🔈️ | |
| CSS | \1F508\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F508}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F508\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD08\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f508}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F508}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F508}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%94%88%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 94 88 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD08 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+UiO+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128264 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🔈️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “speaker low volume”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “low”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f508and 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 🔈️ speaker low volume emoji mean?+
🔈️ is the speaker low volume emoji, tagged low, soft and sound. Volume states, announcements and notification talk. The four speaker glyphs 🔇 through 🔊 read as a ramp, so people use them to mark something getting louder or to warn that a clip needs sound on. 📢 and 📣 head up announcements and calls to action, while 🔔 borrows its meaning from the notification bells built into YouTube and most apps.
What is the Unicode code for 🔈️?+
speaker low volume is U+1F508 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🔈️, in CSS \1F508\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F508}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🔈️ emoji added?+
speaker low volume got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). 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 Sound in Objects.
Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🔈️ speaker low volume.