Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 2.0
🗨️Left Speech Bubble Emoji
Means someone’s talking, quoting, or highlighting a conversation. Sent to represent dialogue or a quote, or to signal here’s what was said.
It’s a plain speech bubble pointing left, part of the emoji set since 2015, used the way a comic strip uses one, to show someone’s speaking.
- Unicode
- U+1F5E8 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :left_
speech_ bubble: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🗨️ Left Speech Bubble emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
02 — Platforms
Left Speech Bubble emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the left speech bubble as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Left Speech Bubble 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 :left_speech_bubble:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F5E8.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🗨️ Left Speech Bubble emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Left Speech Bubble emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the left speech bubble as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Left Speech Bubble emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around left speech bubble 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Around the world
What 🗨️ means in other countries
Functionally identical to the standard speech balloon, just facing the other way — a plain “talking” marker with no extra meaning.
used when the speaker sits on the right side of a panel or page
far less common than 💬, so some readers may not recognize it right away
Before you send it: Swap it for 💬 if you want the marker instantly recognizable to everyone reading the message.
09 — Apps
What 🗨️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F5E8, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🗨️ vs 👁️🗨️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Left Speech Bubble
Code: U+1F5E8 U+FE0F · added 2015
Shortcode: :left_speech_bubble:
Means someone’s talking, quoting, or highlighting a conversation.
Unicode name: Eye in Speech Bubble
Code: U+1F441 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F5E8 U+FE0F · added 2015
Shortcode: :eye-in-speech-bubble:
Generally, it means “I saw that” or “I believe it.”
12 — History
Where the 🗨️ Left Speech Bubble emoji came from
It arrived with the 2.0 release of the standard, which dates the left speech bubble to 2015.
Left Speech Bubble was approved as U+1F5E8 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 2.0 (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.
13 — FAQ