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Muted Speaker Emoji 🔇

What 🔇 means

A steel speaker with a circular magnetic base followed by a wide top plate that houses a round dust cap in between. A bright red diagonal line crosses straight through it.

Innately, the 🔇 Muted Speaker emoji suggests noise cancellation either on a music platform/device, a voice/video call, or even on an ongoing video. However, it also signifies silence from a broader perspective.

How and when to use it

Muting is essentially the act of turning down something to focus on something else. So, if your post caption goes along these lines use 🔇. For example, "Mute all that's around you 🔇 and for once, listen to yourself. You'll be glad you did".
If you're sharing a post or a repost on silence; the importance of it, the reflex action many humans have for it, or even content based on meditation and focusing on oneself, you can use 🔇 - "Listen to silence. It has so much to say 🔇".
🔇 could also be used to refer to 'noise cancellation' in any context. For instance, "Be like your headphones. Cancel the noise and focus on beauty 🔇".
Since 🔇 essentially means muted audio, you could use it to refer to voice, sound, music, anything. Like, "Most times, I just prefer not to say anything 🔇 And the rest of the time, I wish I had" (sad, but you get it).
You could use 🔇 even while texting someone on a video call saying "Can't hear ya! 🔇".

Other Names

🔇 Noise Cancellation
🔇 Muted Audio
🔇 No Sound
🔇 Muted Music
🔇 Mute
🔇 Mute Volume
🔇 Speaker With Cancellation Stroke

The lowdown

Category: Objects › sound
Codepoints: U+1F507
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :mute::muted_speaker: Discord
Keywords: mute, muted, quiet, silent, sound, speaker

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.