Telephone Receiver 📞

📞 (U+1F4DE) is a standard Unicode character that you can copy and paste anywhere text is accepted. This page provides a concise reference with safe tips, internal links, and practical guidance so you can use it reliably across apps and platforms.

What it is and where it’s used: Telephone Receiver is part of the Symbols family (block: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs). If you need styled or decorative alternatives, try our Fancy Text tool to generate compatible text that works in most modern interfaces.

History & usage: TELEPHONE RECEIVER depicts a classic telephone receiver. It conveys a phone call concept in messaging and interfaces and its meaning depends on context. Use it to indicate an incoming or outgoing call, to label a call action button in apps, or to mark contact or dialing steps in help or setup screens. The appearance can vary across platforms, apps, and fonts, so color and style may differ. For accessibility, ensure surrounding text conveys the intended meaning and use alt text or surrounding labels in assistive tech. If a platform lacks color emoji support, a monochrome or text-style fallback may appear.

Copy and input: the quickest method is to copy the character here. You can also insert it by its codepoint U+1F4DE in many development tools or editors. Some operating systems provide a character viewer or input palette that lets you search by name or code and insert the glyph into documents.

Display and fallback: if you see an empty box (tofu) or a placeholder rectangle, the active font might not include this codepoint. Switching to a font with broader Unicode coverage or using a fallback font usually fixes the issue. On the web, ensure the page’s font stack includes a general‑purpose fallback.

Related references: browse the Categories for similar characters. When choosing a symbol, prefer the official codepoint for semantic clarity and better compatibility with search, copy, and accessibility tooling.

See our category page for related symbols.