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🔉Speaker Medium Volume Emoji
Unicode added 🔉 speaker medium volume in Emoji 1.0 (2015), filed under Objects → Sound. Its codepoint is U+1F509, and it is tagged medium, sound and speaker.
What 🔉 speaker medium 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 medium, sound and speaker and files it under Objects → Sound.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F509 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🔉 | |
| HTML decimal | 🔉 | |
| CSS | \1F509 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F509} | |
| Python | \U0001F509 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD09 | |
| Rust | \u{1f509} | |
| Swift | \u{1F509} | |
| PHP | \u{1F509} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%94%89 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 94 89 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD09 | |
| Base64 | 8J+UiQ== | |
| Decimal | 128265 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
- medium
- sound
- speaker
- volume
Appears in these collections
How to type 🔉
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “speaker medium volume”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “medium”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f509and 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 medium volume emoji mean?+
🔉 is the speaker medium volume emoji, tagged medium, sound and speaker. 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 medium volume is U+1F509. In HTML that is 🔉, in CSS \1F509, and in JavaScript \u{1F509}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🔉 emoji added?+
speaker medium volume got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (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 Sound in Objects.
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🔉 speaker medium volume.