U+1F57E "🕾" White Touchtone Telephone Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F57E "🕾" White Touchtone Telephone is a pictographic symbol representing a classic telephone handset with a touchtone keypad, depicted in a white or light gray silhouette style. It was introduced as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014 under the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, serving as a digital icon for landline telephones, particularly those with push button dialing rather than rotary models. While it is visually distinct from other telephone emoji like the black receiver or mobile phone, its adoption in text and messaging platforms has been limited, often overshadowed by more common variants. The character encodes a specific historical and technological reference to mid to late 20th century telecommunications equipment, making it a niche but precise symbol for conveying phone related concepts in plain text environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F57E
Version Added 7.0
Name White Touchtone Telephone
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 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83D 0xDD7E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F57E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83d\udd7e

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