Bell with Slash Emoji
A bell crossed out — notifications silenced rather than switched off.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Bell with Slash emoji mean?
A bell crossed out — notifications silenced rather than switched off.
Withdrawn rather than hostile. Silencing is not the same as leaving, and the crossed bell says that a conversation continues without you watching it.
How to use 🔕 naturally
Do-not-disturb periods, muted threads and asking for quiet.
Reaction symbols work like visual emphasis: they reinforce a word, rate an idea or replace a short response. Repetition normally increases intensity, but it can also make a message feel more performative.
From standard to slang
The history of 🔕
- 2015
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Bell with Slash was first defined as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. The first release where Unicode versioned the emoji set as a standard in its own right.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
The same handbell with a bar through it. Silencing is not switching off, and the bell still being drawn intact is what carries that distinction.
- Today
How its use evolved
Do-not-disturb periods, muted threads and asking for quiet.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🔕 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Muting this thread until Monday 🔕
Phone is on silent all weekend 🔕
Notifications off, I will read it properly later 🔕
When to use it
Using 🔕 clearly
Do-not-disturb periods, muted threads and asking for quiet. It lands as bell with slash emoji or 🔕 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the bell with slash emoji
What does 🔕 mean in a text message?
A bell crossed out — notifications silenced rather than switched off. Withdrawn rather than hostile. Silencing is not the same as leaving, and the crossed bell says that a conversation continues without you watching it.
Is 🔕 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are bell with slash emoji, 🔕 meaning, mute notifications emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🔕 look different on another device?
U+1F515 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the bell with slash emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🔕 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the bell with slash emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🔕 as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
Easily confused
🔕 compared with similar emoji
These sit close enough in meaning that people reach for the wrong one. Here is what actually separates them.
Bell with Slash or Bell?
🔕 is not the opposite of 🔔 so much as its off switch — the thread carries on either way.
Bell with Slash or Muted Speaker?
🔇 is about sound. 🔕 is about alerts, and something can be silent on screen while still interrupting you.
For developers
🔕 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F515 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🔕 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🔕 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F515 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F515} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%94%95 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F515
- Category
- Symbols & Reactions
- Also known as
- bell with slash emoji🔕 meaningmute notifications emoji
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