What 🕪 means
It signals sound or volume. In a message, it cues playback, not a mood.
A 2009 Unicode proposal called it “Emoji Compatibility Symbol-11,” linking it to emoji from Japan’s KDDI and SoftBank mobile carriers. A 2012 review records its speaker name; Unicode 7.0 included it in 2014. These dates mark standardization, not invention.
It is a text character, not fixed emoji artwork. Its shape follows the font; an unsupported font may show a box.
Literal and interface-like; in a message, it cues audio.
A missing glyph may appear as a box.
Part of collections
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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4Questions people ask
1Why does 🕪 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 🕪
- Search it as
- speaker · audio · volume · loudspeaker · sound on · volume up
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🕪\1F56ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.