U+1F581 "🖁" Clamshell Mobile Phone Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🖁
U+1F581 "🖁" Clamshell Mobile Phone is a pictographic representation of a classic flip or clamshell style cellular phone, characterized by its hinged design that folds open to reveal a keypad and screen. Introduced in Unicode 7.0 as part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, this emoji is distinct from the more common mobile phone emoji (U+1F4F1) and evokes a sense of nostalgia for late 1990s and early 2000s mobile technology. It is typically used in digital communication to represent retro cell phones, calling, or the act of making a telephone call in a vintage context.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F581 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Clamshell Mobile Phone |
| 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 0x96 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD81 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F581 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd81 |
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 |