Left anger bubble

It marks a comic shout, with the tail pointing left.

An anger bubble or shout bubble makes a line feel louder; it can underline irritation, but “left” identifies the tail’s direction, not the person being addressed.

Unicode’s shorthand is “shout left,” placing it with comic speech bubbles rather than ordinary punctuation.

Is it safe to send 🗮?

It fits best when the surrounding message is clearly playful.

It is an emphatic outburst: alone, it can sound irritated; after a complaint, it can intensify that tone. A lone symbol does not prove the sender is angry at you.

For work or a sensitive exchange, spell out the feeling or use a familiar reaction.

Where did 🗮 come from?

Its documented trail starts in Webdings.

Webdings, a font of ready-made pictures for web pages, was designed in 1997 to provide scalable graphics without separate image files. Speech bubbles were part of that symbol set.

A Unicode working paper from 2011 maps Webdings entry w-0123 to this design. Unicode encoded it in 2014 as a text character; that date marks computer standardization, not when the drawing was invented.