What 🔕 means
The bell's alerts are off. As a mute icon beside a chat, it usually means messages still arrive without pings. Sending the emoji itself does not change any settings.
Why did someone send me 🔕?
They may be asking for quiet or taking a break. Before sleep, work, or a meeting, read it as a heads-up that replies may wait. Alone, it does not tell you whether they are annoyed.
Practical in settings; in a reply, a compact request for quiet.
Do not confuse a muted chat with a blocked chat.
Don't confuse it with
2Worth knowing
- The characters behind 🔕 existed in Unicode 5 years before anyone was allowed to draw them in colour: Unicode 6.0 in 2010, emoji presentation in 2015.
- 🔕 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🔕 look different on other phones?
Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point. The character you send is identical; Apple, Google, Samsung and WhatsApp each render it in their own style.
How to type 🔕
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “bell with slash”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “bell with slash”.
Chat apps
:no_bell:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🔕Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🔕
HTML hex
🔕
CSS content
content: "\1F515";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%94%95
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.