microphone

Group: Objects · Subgroup: Music · Emoji 0.6

Keywords

karaoke
mic
microphone
music
sing
sound

About this character

microphone belongs to the Objects group and is encoded at U+1F3A4. 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+1F3A4
Hex: 1F3A4
Decimal: 127908
HTML: 🎤
CSS: \1F3A4
JavaScript: \u{1F3A4}
Python: \U0001F3A4
UTF-8: F0 9F 8E A4

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

musical score U+1F3BC Similar
musical note U+1F3B5 Similar
musical notes U+1F3B6 Similar
studio microphone U+1F399 Similar
level slider U+1F39A Similar
control knobs U+1F39B Similar
headphone U+1F3A7 Similar
radio U+1F4FB Similar

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.