U+1F5E3 "🗣" Speaking Head in Silhouette Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🗣
U+1F5E3 "🗣" Speaking Head in Silhouette is a pictographic symbol depicting the profile of a human head with sound waves emanating from the mouth, representing speaking, talking, or vocal expression. It was introduced in Unicode 7.0 in 2014 as part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, though it is technically distinct from standard emoji sets for which platform rendering may vary significantly. The character is often used to denote active conversation, public speaking, or the act of voicing an opinion, and it can appear in both digital communication and textual annotations to indicate that someone is talking or that a message is being delivered aloud.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F5E3 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Speaking Head in Silhouette |
| 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 0x97 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDDE3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F5E3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udde3 |
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 |
| Emoji | Yes |
| Extended Pictographic | Yes |