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📞Telephone Receiver Emoji
Unicode added 📞 telephone receiver in Unicode 6.0 (2010), filed under Objects → Phone. Its codepoint is U+1F4DE, and it is tagged communication, phone and receiver.
What 📞 telephone receiver means
Six devices covering how people reach each other, though only two still describe current hardware. 📱 means texting or screen time, 📞 and ☎️ mean an actual voice call, and 📲 was once shorthand for check your messages. The plain telephone ☎️ predates emoji entirely, existing as a black and white text symbol in Unicode since the early 1990s.
Unicode tags this one communication, phone and receiver and files it under Objects → Phone.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F4DE | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 📞 | |
| HTML decimal | 📞 | |
| CSS | \1F4DE | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4DE} | |
| Python | \U0001F4DE | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDCDE | |
| Rust | \u{1f4de} | |
| Swift | \u{1F4DE} | |
| PHP | \u{1F4DE} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%93%9E | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 93 9E | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DCDE | |
| Base64 | 8J+Tng== | |
| Decimal | 128222 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 📞
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “telephone receiver”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “communication”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f4deand 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 📞 telephone receiver emoji mean?+
📞 is the telephone receiver emoji, tagged communication, phone and receiver. Six devices covering how people reach each other, though only two still describe current hardware. 📱 means texting or screen time, 📞 and ☎️ mean an actual voice call, and 📲 was once shorthand for check your messages. The plain telephone ☎️ predates emoji entirely, existing as a black and white text symbol in Unicode since the early 1990s.
What is the Unicode code for 📞?+
telephone receiver is U+1F4DE. In HTML that is 📞, in CSS \1F4DE, and in JavaScript \u{1F4DE}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 📞 emoji added?+
telephone receiver 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 Phone in Objects.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 📞 telephone receiver.