🔉Speaker Medium Volume Emoji
Generally, 🔉 means the sound is at a normal, moderate volume. It’s used to indicate that something is being spoken clearly and not too loud or too quiet.
The 🔉 emoji represents a speaker with adjustable volume.
- Unicode
- U+1F509
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :sound:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🔉 Speaker Medium Volume emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
Speaker Medium Volume emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the speaker medium volume as 9 vendors ship it.
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 Medium Volume 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 :sound:.
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+1F509.
How to type the 🔉 Speaker Medium Volume emoji
No picker to hand? The speaker medium volume can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Speaker Medium Volume 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
Speaker Medium Volume emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around speaker medium 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
Chat apps do not change U+1F509, 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: Speaker Medium Volume
Code: U+1F509 · added 2015
Shortcode: :sound:
Generally, 🔉 means the sound is at a normal, moderate volume.
Unicode name: Speaker Low Volume
Code: U+1F508 · added 2014
Shortcode: :speaker:
Basically, it means "quiet" or "low volume.
Where the 🔉 Speaker Medium Volume emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F509 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 Medium Volume was approved as U+1F509 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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.