Objects · Emoji 0.6
🎧Headphone Emoji
It generally means someone is listening to audio or wants to listen to something. It’s a quick way to show you’re enjoying music or need a little peace and quiet.
The 🎧 emoji shows a pair of headphones.
- Unicode
- U+1F3A7
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :headphones:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🎧 Headphone emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Headphone emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the headphone has been drawn in 5 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Headphone 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 :headphones:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the headphone, code point U+1F3A7.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🎧 Headphone emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Headphone emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the headphone as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Headphone emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around headphone 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Apps
What 🎧 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the headphone lands changes how it is taken.
11 — History
Where the 🎧 Headphone 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+1F3A7 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 E67A, KDDI au E508, SoftBank E30A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Headphone was approved as U+1F3A7 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.
12 — FAQ