U+1F56C "🕬" Bullhorn with Sound Waves Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🕬
U+1F56C "🕬" Bullhorn with Sound Waves is a pictographic symbol that depicts a classic cone-shaped megaphone, often shown in black or outlined form, with curved lines radiating from its open end to represent sound waves or noise amplification. This character is conceptually similar to the more common "📢" public address loudspeaker emoji but is distinguished by its explicit inclusion of the sound wave marks, making it particularly suited for contexts involving announcements, broadcasting, or raising an alert in a visual or digital interface. Its use in text and online communication typically conveys the idea of a message being shouted, proclaimed, or disseminated to a wide audience.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F56C |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Bullhorn with Sound Waves |
| 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 0x95 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD6C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F56C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd6c |
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 |
| 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 |