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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.

Other Names

📞 Handset
📞 Telephone Handset
📞 Receiver
📞 Phone
📞 Landline Receiver
📞 Black Telephone Receiver

The lowdown

Category: Objects › phone
Codepoints: U+1F4DE
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :telephone_receiver:
Keywords: communication, phone, receiver, telephone, voip

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.