megaphone

Group: Objects · Subgroup: Sound · Emoji 0.6

Keywords

cheering
megaphone
sound

About this character

megaphone belongs to the Objects group and is encoded at U+1F4E3. It was added in Unicode 0.6.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F4E3
Hex: 1F4E3
Decimal: 128227
HTML: 📣
CSS: \1F4E3
JavaScript: \u{1F4E3}
Python: \U0001F4E3
UTF-8: F0 9F 93 A3

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

muted speaker U+1F507
speaker low volume U+1F508
speaker medium volume U+1F509
speaker high volume U+1F50A
loudspeaker U+1F4E2
postal horn U+1F4EF
bell U+1F514
bell with slash U+1F515

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.