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The silhouette of a person speaking. Faces left-to-right, with lines demonstrating speech being expelled. Sometimes used in the context of shouting&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansplaining">mansplaining</a>.

Speaking Head in Silhouette

A yellow face placing an index finger over pursed lips, as if issuing Shh!&nbsp;or Shush! for silence. Some platforms feature raised eyebrows. Apple&rsquo;s design suggests the face is tilting back slightly.&nbsp;

May convey silence, quiet, secrecy, and discreetness. May also create a sense of buzz and anticipation, e.g., an exclusive sneak peek or news scoop.

May also be combined with one of the <a href="/deaf-person">🧏&nbsp;Deaf Person</a> emojis to reference &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mewing_(orthotropics)">mewing</a>&quot;.

See also <a href="/zipper-mouth-face/">🤐&nbsp;Zipper-Mouth Face</a>. Joins <a href="/hugging-face/">🤗&nbsp;Hugging Face</a>, <a href="/thinking-face/">🤔&nbsp;Thinking Face</a>, and <a href="/face-with-hand-over-mouth/">🤭&nbsp;Face With Hand Over Mouth</a> as one of the few smileys featuring hands.

Face with Finger Covering Closed Lips

A cartoon-style balloon used to represent spoken word in comics. Sometimes &nbsp;used in communication apps to&nbsp;indicate that another person is typing a message.

Speech Balloon

A form of <a href="/speech-balloon/" title="💬 Speech Balloon">speech balloon</a> used with angular edges, used to denote angry speech in comics.

Right Anger Bubble

A large cloud-like shape more commonly known as a thought bubble.

Used to represent thinking, or thoughts, and commonly used in&nbsp;comics to display the thoughts of a drawn character. May also be used to represent a dream, or daydream.

Thought Balloon

A&nbsp;human mouth which is&nbsp;generally displayed as a pair of&nbsp;lips and a top row of teeth, instead of the inside of the&nbsp;mouth.

May be used to indicate the spoken word&nbsp;or as an alternative to <a href="/kiss-mark/">Kiss Mark</a>.

Notably used alongside two&nbsp;<a href="/eye">eye</a> emojis to create the &quot;It is what it is&quot; emoji face: 👁️👄👁️. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/10-years-of-viral-emoji-moments/">Learn more here</a>.

Mouth

A singer or rock star&nbsp;generally displayed with a <a href="/microphone/">microphone</a>, and sometimes <a href="/musical-notes/">musical notes</a>.

iOS and Android display this emoji as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie">Bowie</a>-esque figure while&nbsp;WhatsApp appears heavily inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)">Prince</a>.

Singer

A man singer or rock star&nbsp;generally displayed with a <a href="/microphone/">microphone</a>, and sometimes <a href="/musical-notes/">musical notes</a>.

iOS and Android display this emoji as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie">Bowie</a>-esque figure while&nbsp;WhatsApp appears heavily inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)">Prince</a>.

Man Singer

A woman singer or rock star&nbsp;generally displayed with a <a href="/microphone/">microphone</a>, and sometimes <a href="/musical-notes/">musical notes</a>.

iOS and Android display this emoji as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie">Bowie</a>-esque figure while&nbsp;WhatsApp appears heavily inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)">Prince</a>.

Woman Singer

A parrot, a brightly colored bird known for its ability to mimic speech. Depicted in full profile facing left. Resembles&nbsp;a green <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovebird">lovebird</a> with red&nbsp;and yellow&nbsp;wings on some platforms&nbsp;and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_macaw">scarlet macaw</a> with blue&nbsp;and yellow&nbsp;wings on others.

Can be used to represent various parrots or&nbsp;birds in general. May also be used to talk about mimicking.

Facebook&rsquo;s parrot is orange with blue-tipped wings. Google&#39;s&nbsp;parrot&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-9.0/parrot/">was previously</a>&nbsp;a scarlet macaw perched on a branch.

Parrot

A speaker cone displayed without any sound&nbsp;waves.

Speaker

A speaker cone displayed with one sound&nbsp;wave, generally used as an icon to indicate the decreasing&nbsp;of volume on a phone or computer.

Previously displayed&nbsp;with two sound waves on Android, instead of one.

Speaker with One Sound Wave

A speaker cone displayed with three sound waves, generally used as an icon to indicate the increasing of volume on a phone or computer.

Used by the Google Chrome browser to indicate which of your browser windows is playing sound.

Speaker with Three Sound Waves

A loudspeaker used to make announcements in public areas such as schools, or sporting grounds.

Public Address Loudspeaker

A handheld&nbsp;megaphone,&nbsp;used to amplify a person&#39;s voice.

May also be known as a speaking trumpet, bullhorn, blowhorn, or loudhailer.

Cheering Megaphone

A music note emoji,&nbsp;which can denote song lyrics, or other music related topics.

Displays as two eighth-notes (quavers in British English) connected with a beam. A single eight-note (quaver) was previously used in <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/musical-note/">Microsoft</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-7.0/musical-note/">Google&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;emoji designs.

Musical Note

Three eighth notes (quavers in British English), used to represent music or singing. Sometimes inserted&nbsp;next to&nbsp;quoted&nbsp;lyrics, to make it clear that they are part of a song.

Multiple Musical Notes

A microphone, as used for <a href="/radio/">radio</a> broadcasting or studio recording. Most platforms depict a vintage, silver microphone, like the <a href="https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/75-years-shure-unidyne-55">Shure Unidyne 55</a>.

Commonly used for various content concerning radio, broadcasting, music, recording, and podcasts.

Not to be confused with the handheld <a href="/microphone/">🎤&nbsp;Microphone</a>, associated with live singing.

Studio Microphone

A microphone, used&nbsp;to amplify a person&rsquo;s voice when speaking or singing.

Previously shown with <a href="/musical-notes/">music notes</a> on most platforms, implying it to be used for a singer / singing.&nbsp;Today&nbsp;only Twitter&#39;s design retains these notes.

Microphone

A classic telephone, as a landline home phone. Most platforms depict a red, push-button phone with the <a href="/telephone-receiver/">handset</a> on the base.&nbsp;Some platforms feature&nbsp;designs with&nbsp;rotary dials.

Used for various content concerning literal and figurative phone calling. Also used as an icon before a phone number.

See glossary for the term <a href="/glossary/#black">black</a> in Unicode character names.

Black Telephone

The handset of a traditional&nbsp;<a href="/telephone/" title="☎ Black Telephone">telephone</a>, with speaker and microphone. Generally depicted in black at a 45&deg; angle.

Like <a href="/telephone/">☎️&nbsp;Telephone</a>, used for various content concerning literal and figurative phone-calling. Also used as an icon before a phone number.

Microsoft&rsquo;s design is red.

<a href="/au-kddi/type-a-2/telephone-receiver/">Early designs</a> for the telephone receiver emoji from au by KDDI resembled a mobile phone, and vice versa,&nbsp;before having their codepoints swapped in later releases.

Telephone Receiver

A sign on a post, commonly used to promote ideas, causes, or make announcements. Often used used in the context of politics to represent a lawn sign or a poster brought to a protest. Also seen in commercial advertising.

Shown with indiscernible writing or not writing at all, this emoji is flexible in its use. WhatsApp shows a peace sign, which tilts the meaning away from commercial use.

Placard

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Emojipedia

Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord, Roblox, and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

A licensable emoji design set.

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