U+1F4E2 "📢" Public Address Loudspeaker Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
📢
U+1F4E2 "📢" Public Address Loudspeaker is a pictographic representation of a classic horn-shaped loudspeaker, typically colored red or orange, with sound waves emanating from its bell to symbolize a public announcement, alert, or broadcast. It is commonly used in digital communication to signify that important information is being shared, such as event notifications, emergency warnings, or general announcements in chat groups, social media, and user interfaces. This emoji often conveys a sense of urgency or authority, differentiating it from more casual sound symbols like the speaker emoji.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F4E2 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Public Address Loudspeaker |
| 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 0x93 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDCE2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F4E2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udce2 |