Telephone

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Shortcode
:phone:
Shortcode
:telephone:
Unicode
U+260E
HTML
☎
CSS
\260E
JavaScript
"\u{260E}"
URL
%E2%98%8E%EF%B8%8F

phone

What ☎️ means

A classic desk telephone with a handset on top. It stands for phone calls, phone numbers and getting in touch.

Common next to a phone number on flyers, menus and business profiles. In chat it can mean “call me” or “I'm on a call.” It has a more old-fashioned, office feel than 📱, which makes it handy for retro or formal contexts.

Facts

Telephone ☎️ is an emoji in the objects category, under phone. 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 :phone: or :telephone:. People also look for it with words like “phone”.

Timeline

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

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. telephone, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. telephone, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. telephone, Google (Noto) design from 20202020
  4. telephone, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. telephone, 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 · Unicode 6.0