U+1F5E8 "🗨" Left Speech Bubble Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🗨
U+1F5E8 "🗨" Left Speech Bubble is a graphical symbol representing a stylized speech bubble with a tail pointing to the left, typically used in digital text to indicate spoken dialogue, thoughts, or commentary originating from a leftward position. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, introduced in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, and its official name "Left Speech Bubble" distinguishes it from its rightward counterpart, U+1F5E9, and the more common filled speech bubble, U+1F4AC. This character is often employed in comics, user interfaces, or informal messaging to suggest a character or source speaking from the left side of a visual frame, though its specific appearance and usage may vary across platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F5E8 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Left Speech Bubble |
| 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 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDDE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F5E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udde8 |
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 |