Left Hand Telephone Receiver

Read it as a phone call or contact. The nearby words clarify whether the sender means “call me,” “I’m calling,” or “let’s talk by phone”; the angle does not describe a person's handedness.

A Unicode working document from 2011 records a Wingdings/Webdings private-use phone glyph named for a left-facing receiver. It proposed standard characters so such symbols could be searched and exchanged without relying on a particular font. The standardized character was added to Unicode in 2014.

Why does a phone symbol show a handset?

One handset joins speaking and listening in a single handle. It puts a microphone at one end and an earpiece at the other. Early versions served telephone operators; lighter designs later became equipment for subscribers. The outline also appears in electrical diagrams and on telephone-service signs that work without words.

Why does this phone receiver face left?

It marks the handset’s orientation, not a different kind of call. Unicode links 🕻 to the generic receiver 📞 and the right-facing counterpart 🕽. Fonts draw this text character themselves, so its monochrome outline can vary or appear as a missing-glyph box when support is absent.