🔔Bell Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you a 🔔, they're letting you know something important has happened or is about to happen. It’s a simple way to get your attention.
The 🔔 emoji represents a classic bell.
- Unicode
- U+1F514
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :bell:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🔔 Bell emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
Bell emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the bell 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.
Bell 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 :bell:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the bell, code point U+1F514.
How to type the 🔔 Bell emoji
No picker to hand? The bell can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Bell emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the bell 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
Bell emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around bell 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 bell 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+1F514, 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: Bell
Code: U+1F514 · added 2010
Shortcode: :bell:
Generally, when someone sends you a 🔔, they're letting you know something important has happened or is about to happen.
Unicode name: Bell With Slash
Code: U+1F515 · added 2015
Shortcode: :no_bell:
Generally, when someone sends you the 🔕 emoji in a text, they mean they don’t want to respond or that they’re ignoring what you said.
Where the 🔔 Bell 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+1F514 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 E713, KDDI au E512, SoftBank E325.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Bell was approved as U+1F514 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.