U+1F57B "🕻" Left Hand Telephone Receiver Unicode Character

U+1F57B "🕻" Left Hand Telephone Receiver is a somewhat obscure symbol representing an old fashioned telephone handset held in the left hand, included in the Unicode standard as part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. It was originally intended for use in telecommunications contexts or visual representations of phone calls, though it is rarely used in modern digital communication compared to more common emoji like the telephone receiver. The character has a counterpart in U+1F57C "🕼" Right Hand Telephone Receiver, together reflecting an era of wired telephones and operator switchboards. Despite its niche status, it remains a part of Unicode's effort to encode historical and technical symbols from diverse domains.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F57B
Version Added	7.0
Name	Left Hand Telephone Receiver
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 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDD7B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F57B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udd7b

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