Phone Symbols
Click any symbol to copy it. 6 characters, each labelled with its Unicode code point.
The two oldest characters here were encoded for print directories and signage. The rest are emoji, and the difference shows immediately in how they render. This collection holds 6 phone symbols drawn from 3 Unicode blocks — mainly Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Miscellaneous Symbols and Dingbats. Code points run from U+260E to U+1F4F2. 3 of them sit above U+FFFF, in the supplementary planes, so they are more likely to render as colour emoji on phones and may be rejected by older software that assumes every character fits in two bytes.
Text-era telephones
☎ (U+260E) and ☏ (U+260F) date from Miscellaneous Symbols and depict a handset telephone. ✆ (U+2706) is a Dingbat. All three are monochrome text characters.
Emoji telephones
📞 📱 📲 are supplementary-plane emoji, drawn in colour from the emoji font at a size the emoji font chooses.
☎ has both presentations
U+260E has an emoji presentation on many platforms, so the same character can render as flat black text in one place and as a colour image in another, depending on whether a variation selector is applied.
Unicode blocks in this collection
| Unicode block | Characters | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs | 3 | 50% |
| Miscellaneous Symbols | 2 | 33% |
| Dingbats | 1 | 17% |
Sample characters and their code points
☎
☏
✆
📞
📱
📲
Frequently asked questions
Why does ☎ sometimes appear in colour?
It is one of the older symbols that was retrofitted with an emoji presentation. Which form you get depends on the platform default and on whether an invisible variation selector follows the character.