Microphone

Your device cannot show this emoji yet. It still copies, and newer phones will show it.

Shortcode: :microphone:
Unicode: U+1F3A4
HTML: 🎤
CSS: \1F3A4
JavaScript: "\u{1F3A4}"
URL: %F0%9F%8E%A4

What 🎤 means

A handheld microphone. It means singing, karaoke, performing, and having the floor to speak.

Appears for karaoke nights, concerts, open mics and stand-up comedy. After a sharp comeback, people add 🎤 or 🎤⬇️ for a “mic drop,” meaning nothing more needs to be said. It can also hand the floor to someone: “your turn 🎤.”

Facts

Microphone 🎤 is an emoji in the objects category, under music. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 3 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :microphone:. People also look for it with words like “karaoke”, “mic”, “music”, or “sing”.