☎️Telephone Emoji
Generally, it just means “phone” or “call. ” People use it to indicate they want to talk or are referencing a phone conversation.
The ☎️ emoji is a classic telephone receiver.
- Unicode
- U+260E U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :phone:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ☎️ Telephone emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 1.
Telephone emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+260E. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
Telephone 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 :phone:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the telephone, code point U+260E.
How to type the ☎️ Telephone emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Telephone emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the telephone 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
Telephone emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around telephone 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 telephone and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What ☎️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the telephone 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: Telephone
Code: U+260E U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :phone:
Generally, it just means “phone” or “call.
Unicode name: Telephone Receiver
Code: U+1F4DE · added 2010
Shortcode: :telephone_receiver:
It usually just means “call”.
Where the ☎️ Telephone 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+260E 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
☎️ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E687, KDDI au E596, SoftBank E009.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Telephone was approved as U+260E U+FE0F 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.