What does ☎️ mean?
Telephone: a call, customer service, 'call me', an old landline.
Its official Unicode name is BLACK TELEPHONE and its CLDR short name is "telephone" (in Hungarian: "telefon"). It belongs to the Objects group and was added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010.
Keywords that find it
Keyboards and emoji pickers suggest it for these words (Unicode CLDR).
- phone
Will it look the same for everyone?
Every vendor (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, WhatsApp and Facebook) draws ☎️ in its own style, so the colours or shape may differ a little for the person you send it to. The meaning stays the same, because the text always carries the same code point: U+260E U+FE0F. It has been around for years, so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
The trailing U+FE0F (emoji variation selector) asks the system to draw a colour emoji instead of a black-and-white text symbol. It is included when you copy it from here.
Technical details
- Official name
- BLACK TELEPHONE
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- telefon
- English name (CLDR)
- telephone
- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6 (2010)
- Group
- Objects · phone
- Length
- 2 code points · 6 bytes in UTF-8 · 2 UTF-16 units
- Shortcode
- :phone: :telephone:
Related emojis
- Mobile phone
- Mobile phone with arrow
- Telephone receiver
- Pager
- Fax machine
Frequently asked questions
What does the ☎️ emoji mean?
Telephone: a call, customer service, 'call me', an old landline.
How do I type the ☎️ emoji?
The easiest way is to copy it from this page. On Windows open the Win + . panel, on a Mac press Ctrl + Cmd + Space, and on a phone search the emoji keyboard for "phone".
When was the ☎️ emoji added?
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010), so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Data: Unicode emoji-test.txt and Unicode Character Database 18.0, Unicode CLDR (names, keywords), GitHub gemoji (shortcodes). The meaning describes everyday online use, not an official definition.