People & Body · Emoji 0.7
🗣️Speaking Head Emoji
Generally, it means someone is speaking, or you’re emphasizing that you’re hearing them. It’s often used to add excitement or drama to a text message.
The 🗣️ emoji is a speech bubble with a head inside it.
- Unicode
- U+1F5E3 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :speaking_
head_ in_ silhouette: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🗣️ Speaking Head emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
People also look for it as speak emoji, speaking emoji.
02 — Platforms
Speaking Head emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the speaking head has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Speaking Head 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 :speaking_head_in_silhouette:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F5E3.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🗣️ Speaking Head emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F5E3 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Speaking Head emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 8. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
06 — Combinations
Speaking Head emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around speaking head 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 for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🗣️ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Around the world
What 🗣️ means in other countries
Mostly used online to mean 'listen up' or amplify a strong opinion, though it can also read as calling out gossip or informing on someone.
Signals emphasis — 'I'm speaking facts' or a loud announcement.
Can imply someone is spilling secrets or snitching.
Occasionally used literally to mean 'let's discuss this out loud.'
Before you send it: Fine for hype or emphasis; skip it near gossip-adjacent topics to avoid the snitching reading.
09 — Apps
What 🗣️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Related
Emojis similar to the Speaking Head emoji
Same family (person-symbol) — often confused with speaking head or used alongside it.
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Fingerprint
👪Family
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👥Busts in Silhouette
🫂People Hugging
Family Adult, Adult, Child
Family Adult, Adult, Child, Child
Family Adult, Child
Family Adult, Child, Child
👋Waving Hand
🤚Raised Back of Hand
Collections 🗣️ belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
11 — History
Where the 🗣️ Speaking Head emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the speaking head to 2014.
Same character every time — U+1F5E3 U+FE0F 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.
Speaking Head was approved as U+1F5E3 U+FE0F 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, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ