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Headphones, used to listen to music or other forms audio, such as podcasts.&nbsp;Most platforms display this emoji with large over-ear headphones in shades of black, blue, and gray.

Apple previously displayed&nbsp;this emoji as <a href="/apple/ios-10.0/headphone/" title="🎧 Headphone on Apple iOS 10.0">iconic iPod white earbuds</a>, followed by black&nbsp;<a href="/apple/ios-10.2/headphone/">Beats headphones in 2016</a>, and in 2021 switched <a href="/apple/ios-14.5/headphone/">to display white AirPods Max</a>.

Headphone

A mobile phone (cell phone), as used to text, check social media, or take <a href="/selfie/">selfies</a>. Depicted as a black or gray smartphone with a generic blue screen or multicolored app icons. Commonly used for various content concerning mobile phones, technology, and communication.

The designs from Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung resemble phones offered by their respective companies, e.g., iPhone. WhatsApp&rsquo;s design features a night sky as its wallpaper, displaying the time as 9:34.

<a href="/au-kddi/type-a-2/mobile-phone/">Early designs</a> for the mobile phone emoji from au by KDDI resembled a traditional&nbsp;<a href="/telephone-receiver/">telephone receiver</a>, and vice versa, before having their codepoints swapped in later releases.

See also <a href="/mobile-phone-with-arrow/">📲&nbsp;Mobile Phone With Arrow</a>.

Mobile Phone

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

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 speaker with a red line through it, indicating muted volume or silencing&nbsp;of audio.

Speaker with Cancellation Stroke

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 small section of a music keyboard, which differs from a&nbsp;<a href="/keyboard/" title="⌨️ Keyboard">computer keyboard</a>.

Showing white and black keys, this keyboard is played by a pianist to make <a href="/musical-notes/" title="🎶 Multiple Musical Notes">music</a>. Commonly used as a piano emoji.

Musical Keyboard

A mouse, as used to control a cursor on a <a href="/desktop-computer/">computer</a>. Generally depicted as a white or gray, cordless device with a scroll wheel between left- and right-click buttons.

Used for various content concerning computers, including gaming and various senses of click (e.g., clickbait).

Apple&rsquo;s design resembles the company&rsquo;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Mouse">Magic Mouse</a>, with a single button. Google&rsquo;s mouse <a href="/computer-mouse/">previously</a> had&nbsp;a cord.

Not to be confused with <a href="/mouse/">🐁 Mouse</a>.

Three Button Mouse

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 level slider, as adjusts volume on a mixing console. Most platforms depict a silver and black channel fader with scale markings, set to various levels. Apple and Google&#39;s&nbsp;go&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven">up to eleven</a>.

Commonly used for various content concerning audio recording and production as well as music more generally. May also be used for figurative senses of level, e.g., next level.

Thanks to its appearance, some may use the emoji to represent a <a href="/latin-cross/">Christian cross</a>.

Level Slider

Four control knobs, as adjust audio levels on a mixing console. Generally depicted as a silver square with black knobs, turned to various levels as indicated by white pointers and scale markings.

Commonly used for various content concerning audio recording and production as well as music more generally.

Control Knobs

A silver <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc">optical disc</a>, as a CD or <a href="/dvd/">DVD</a>, used to play music or movies before the rise of streaming technology. Commonly used to represent CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and related film and music content, especially albums.

See also <a href="/computer-disk/">💽 Computer Disk</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/dvd/">📀 DVD</a>.

Optical Disc

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD">digital versatile disc</a> (DVD), a type of <a href="/optical-disk/">optical disc</a> used to play movies before the rise of streaming technology. Generally depicted in gold, though Facebook&rsquo;s is bluish gray, as a Blu-ray.

Commonly used to represent CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and related film and music content, especially albums.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/dvd/">Google</a>, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/dvd/">Microsoft</a>, <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/dvd/">Samsung</a>, and <a href="/softbank/2014/dvd/">Softbank&rsquo;s</a> designs were once labelled DVD, as to&nbsp;distinguish&nbsp;it from <a href="/optical-disk/">💿 Optical Disk</a>.

See also&nbsp;<a href="/optical-disk/">💿 Optical Disc</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/computer-disk/">💽 Computer Disk</a>.

A videotape cassette, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS">VHS</a> tape used to watch movies or record <a href="/television/">TV</a> on VCRs before <a href="/dvd/">DVDs</a> , DVRs, and streaming. Generally depicted as a black cassette with a white label between its reels.

Occasionally used for various content concerning film and video (taping) as well as an icon for a video, as before an upload, link, or credit. May also be used to represent audio <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape">cassette tapes</a>.

Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/videocassette/">previously resembled</a> a voicemail icon.

Videocassette

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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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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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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An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.

Released in&nbsp;October&nbsp;2010, Unicode 6.0 was the first version of the Unicode Standard to support emoji.

Some characters in <a href="/unicode-5.2/">prior</a>&nbsp;versions of Unicode were retroactively updated to provide&nbsp;an emoji presentation. This release was the first to introduce new characters for the sole purpose of compatability with emojis being used in Japan.

The Noto Emoji Font is an open-source font developed by <a href="/google/">Google</a> as part of the Noto Emoji project that supports monochrome versions the&nbsp;Unicode emoji set.

As per standard variable text fonts, the Noto Emoji Font allows users to change each emoji character&#39;s color, size and weight.

The&nbsp;font&#39;s&nbsp;designs across most categories&nbsp;largely mirror&nbsp;those of <a href="/google/">Google&rsquo;s</a> colorful Noto Emoji set, which provides standard emoji support across Google platforms and many Android devices.&nbsp;

Notably, however, the majority of the font&#39;s people emoji designs emulate the popular blob emoji designs used on Google properties between <a href="/google/android-4.4/">2013</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/google/android-7.0/">2018</a>.

As such, the font does not support distinct designs for&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-modifier-sequence/">skin tone modifier</a> sequences&nbsp;and many gender-specifying <a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ sequences</a>, instead displaying the same design as the base neutral&nbsp;emoji: either a blob or a humanoid&nbsp;silhouette.

The font is&nbsp;<a href="https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Emoji">free to download</a> and is licensed under the <a href="https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&amp;id=OFL">Open Font License</a>.

Every emoji supported within Google's monochrome Noto Emoji font. Free to download from Google Fonts.

Noto Emoji

Released in early September 2023, this update to Google&#39;s monochrome Noto Emoji font introduced support for <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a>&nbsp;prior to the official publication of Unicode 15.1.

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15.1

Released on 2022-09-13, this update to Google&#39;s&nbsp;monochrome Noto Emoji font introduced support for <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a>.

The update also changed the three letter codes used for the <a href="https://emojipedia.org/flag-england/">England</a>&nbsp;and <a href="https://emojipedia.org/flag-wales/">Wales</a>&nbsp;emoji flags.

15.0

The first version of Google&#39;s&nbsp;monochrome Noto Emoji font was released 2022-04-29 via <a href="https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Emoji">Google Fonts</a>. It provided support for all emojis up to late 2021&#39;s <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/exploring-googles-new-black-and-blobby-emoji-font/">Read more about this font</a>, including comparisons to 2015&#39;s <a href="/google/android-6.0.1/">Android 6.0.1</a> and late 2021&#39;s <a href="/google/android-12l/">Android 12/12L</a>.

Note: Noto Emoji designs are displayed with a white block background on Emojipedia to allow for compatibility with devices using dark mode.

🎧 Headphone on Noto Emoji Font 15.0

🎧 Headphone on Noto Emoji Font 15.0

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