What 📲 means
📲 is the mobile phone with arrow emoji, filed under Objects in the phone subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 6.0 (2010).
How it is encoded
📲 is a single code point, U+1F4F2.
It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.
Casual and a little pushy — fine when a call is already expected, bossy when it isn't.
Sent alone to someone you rarely call, it reads as an order.
Don't confuse it with
2Combination ideas
2One way to ask "Can I call you now?"
One way to say "I'll call you soon."
Worth knowing
- Japanese phone companies once each had their own phone-call pictogram; a 2009 Unicode comparison mapped them to this one sign, labelled "making a phone call."
Questions people ask
1Does 📲 mean someone is calling me or that I should call them?
Either. Context decides: after a missed call it reads as calling back; next to a phone number it's an invitation to dial it.
How to type 📲
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “mobile phone with arrow”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “mobile phone with arrow”.
Chat apps
:calling:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
📲Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
📲
HTML hex
📲
CSS content
content: "\1F4F2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%93%B2
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.