Left speech bubble

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Shortcode
:left_speech_bubble:
Unicode
U+1F5E8
HTML
🗨
CSS
\1F5E8
JavaScript
"\u{1F5E8}"
URL
%F0%9F%97%A8%EF%B8%8F

balloonbubbledialogleftspeech

What ๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ means

A plain speech bubble with its tail on the left, for someone speaking. ๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ marks dialogue, a quote or a reply.

Less common than ๐Ÿ’ฌ, which most people reach for first. It appears in lists of chat or comment links and in formatted posts that quote what someone said. It also forms part of ๐Ÿ‘๏ธโ€๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ.

Facts

Left speech bubble ๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under emotion. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 2.0, released in 2015. One other emoji uses it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :left_speech_bubble:. People also look for it with words like โ€œballoonโ€, โ€œbubbleโ€, โ€œdialogโ€, or โ€œleftโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
  2. 2015New emoji built from it (Emoji 2.0)๐Ÿ‘๏ธโ€๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. left speech bubble, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. left speech bubble, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. left speech bubble, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

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