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Meaning & usage
What does the Muted Speaker emoji mean?
A speaker with a cross, meaning sound off entirely.
Flat and slightly pointed. It can be practical information about a clip, or it can be a way of telling someone their contribution is being ignored.
How to use 🔇 naturally
Silent clips, mute buttons and asking someone to stop talking.
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, Muted Speaker 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
A speaker cone with a cross beside it. It is the zero of the same series, and the cross is what makes it deliberate rather than merely quiet.
- Today
How its use evolved
Silent clips, mute buttons and asking someone to stop talking.
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.
No sound needed, the captions cover it 🔇
Watching this in a meeting, muted 🔇
Recorded with the mic off by mistake 🔇
When to use it
Using 🔇 clearly
Silent clips, mute buttons and asking someone to stop talking. It lands as muted speaker 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 muted speaker emoji
What does 🔇 mean in a text message?
A speaker with a cross, meaning sound off entirely. Flat and slightly pointed. It can be practical information about a clip, or it can be a way of telling someone their contribution is being ignored.
Is 🔇 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are muted speaker emoji, 🔇 meaning, mute emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🔇 look different on another device?
U+1F507 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 muted speaker 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 muted speaker 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.
Muted Speaker or Bell with Slash?
🔇 silences audio. 🔕 silences notifications, which continue to arrive — you just stop being told about them.
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+1F507 | 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 | \1F507 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F507} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%94%87 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F507
- Category
- Symbols & Reactions
- Also known as
- muted speaker emoji🔇 meaningmute emoji
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