📞

Telephone Receiver Emoji 📞

What 📞 means

A black telephone receiver designed with a pair of raised square structures on both ends; the top being the speaker and the bottom one, the microphone.

The 📞 Telephone Receiver emoji is a synecdoche for the telephone. It represents communication via the phone on one hand and also a symbol generally used to suggest the 'Phone Number' on the other.

How and when to use it

You can use 📞 as a reference to voicemail. It could also point out that your call was forwarded in any given circumstance. For example, "I called him a million times and I left a million voicemails in return 📞".
If you're texting your best friend about how you hung up on someone or vice versa, use 📞. For instance, "Can you guess what I just did?? Huh?? I HUNG UP ON HER! 📞 ME HER HUNG UP!"
If you're sending someone a text to 'call me' or 'I will call you', you can use 📞. Like, "Here's my number 📞".
📞 may also be used to represent missed calls; either missed for a reason like voting purposes or because someone was busy.
Speaking of 'busy', you could also use 📞 to indicate that someone's telephone line says 'busy' - "He's busy, dude 📞. Called thrice in a row".
Essentially, 📞 can be used as a reference to all jargons used in telephone communications.