📞Telephone Receiver Emoji
It usually just means “call”. People use it to indicate they want to talk on the phone or that they’re offering to call someone.
The 📞 emoji shows a telephone receiver.
- Unicode
- U+1F4DE
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :telephone_receiver:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 📞 Telephone Receiver emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
Telephone Receiver emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the telephone receiver has been drawn in 3 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Telephone Receiver 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 :telephone_receiver:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F4DE.
How to type the 📞 Telephone Receiver emoji
No picker to hand? The telephone receiver can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Telephone Receiver 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.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Telephone Receiver emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around telephone receiver for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
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.
What 📞 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the telephone receiver and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 📞 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F4DE, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
📞 vs ☎️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Telephone Receiver
Code: U+1F4DE · added 2010
Shortcode: :telephone_receiver:
It usually just means “call”.
Unicode name: Telephone
Code: U+260E U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :phone:
Generally, it just means “phone” or “call.
Where the 📞 Telephone Receiver 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+1F4DE 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 E687, KDDI au E51E.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Telephone Receiver was approved as U+1F4DE 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.