What 🔉 means
Think volume control, not a shout.
Use this volume emoji beside music or a podcast to flag audio. If you want quieter playback, add “a little lower, please”: the symbol alone doesn't specify a change.
Don't confuse it with
3Worth 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 another phone?
Artwork varies. The sound waves can be drawn differently, so don't identify the volume level by counting waves alone.
How to type 🔉
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “speaker medium volume”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “speaker medium volume”.
Chat apps
:sound:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🔉Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🔉
HTML hex
🔉
CSS content
content: "\1F509";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%94%89
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.