Objects · Emoji 0.6
🎤Microphone Emoji
Generally, the 🎤 emoji means someone wants to be heard or wants you to listen to them. It's often used when sharing a story or an opinion.
The 🎤 emoji is a microphone.
- Unicode
- U+1F3A4
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :microphone:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🎤 Microphone emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
02 — Platforms
Microphone emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the microphone as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Microphone emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :microphone:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the microphone, code point U+1F3A4.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🎤 Microphone emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Microphone emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Microphone emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around microphone for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🎤, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🎤 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Apps
What 🎤 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
11 — Difference
🎤 vs 🎙️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Microphone
Code: U+1F3A4 · added 2010
Shortcode: :microphone:
Generally, the 🎤 emoji means someone wants to be heard or wants you to listen to them.
Unicode name: Studio Microphone
Code: U+1F399 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :studio_microphone:
Basically, it just means “microphone” or “audio.”
12 — History
Where the 🎤 Microphone emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F3A4 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🎤 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E676, KDDI au E503, SoftBank E03C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Microphone was approved as U+1F3A4 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🎤 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ