Loudspeaker

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Shortcode
:loudspeaker:
Unicode
U+1F4E2
HTML
📢
CSS
\1F4E2
JavaScript
"\u{1F4E2}"
URL
%F0%9F%93%A2

addresscommunicationloudpublicsound

What ๐Ÿ“ข means

A public address loudspeaker of the kind mounted on poles or walls. It means โ€œattention, everyoneโ€ and flags news that a whole group needs to hear.

Common at the start of announcements in group chats, work channels and social posts: โ€œ๐Ÿ“ข Meeting moved to 3pm.โ€ It reads as official but friendly. People also use it to amplify a cause or ask others to share a message.

Facts

Loudspeaker ๐Ÿ“ข is an emoji in the objects category, under sound. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :loudspeaker:. People also look for it with words like โ€œaddressโ€, โ€œcommunicationโ€, โ€œloudโ€, or โ€œpublicโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. loudspeaker, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. loudspeaker, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. loudspeaker, Google (Noto) design from 20212021
  4. loudspeaker, Google (Noto) design from 20252025
  5. loudspeaker, Google (Noto) design from 20262026

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. loudspeaker, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014

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

objects ยท Unicode 6.0