🔈Speaker Low Volume Emoji
Basically, it means "quiet" or "low volume. " People use it to signal that a sound is subtle or not loud.
The 🔈 emoji shows a speaker with a downward-pointing arrow, indicating low volume.
- Unicode
- U+1F508
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :speaker:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🔈 Speaker Low Volume emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
People also look for it as speaker emoji.
Speaker Low Volume emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F508 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your speaker low volume looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Speaker Low Volume emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :speaker:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F508.
How to type the 🔈 Speaker Low Volume emoji
No picker to hand? The speaker low volume can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Speaker Low Volume emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the speaker low volume as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Speaker Low Volume emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around speaker low volume 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🔈 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the speaker low volume lands changes how it is taken.
🔈 vs 🔇 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Speaker Low Volume
Code: U+1F508 · added 2014
Shortcode: :speaker:
Basically, it means "quiet" or "low volume.
Unicode name: Muted Speaker
Code: U+1F507 · added 2015
Shortcode: :mute:
Generally, 🔇 means “no” or “silent.
Where the 🔈 Speaker Low Volume emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 0.7, the speaker low volume has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 12.
Same character every time — U+1F508 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.
Speaker Low Volume was approved as U+1F508 and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.