U+1F4AC "💬" Speech Balloon Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F4AC "💬" Speech Balloon is a pictographic representation of a comic style speech bubble, typically depicted as a white, cloud like oval with a small tail pointing downward to indicate the speaker. It is widely used in digital communication to represent conversation, dialogue, comments, or the act of speaking and messaging, often appearing in user interfaces for chat functions or as a symbol for text based discussion. The character is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and has been in the Unicode Standard since version 6.0 in 2010, reflecting the growing importance of visual language in electronic communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F4AC
Version Added 6.0
Name Speech Balloon
Block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 💬
HTML Hex Encoding 💬
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83D 0xDCAC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F4AC
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83d\udcac

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other
Emoji Yes
Emoji Presentation Yes
Extended Pictographic Yes