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Telephone Sign

Group: Letterlike

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About this character

Telephone Sign belongs to the Letterlike group and is encoded at U+2121. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

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

Technical codes

Code point
U+2121
Hex
2121
Decimal
8481
HTML
℡
CSS
\2121
JavaScript
\u2121
Python
\u2121
UTF-8
E2 84 A1

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

Related

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.