U+260E "☎" Black Telephone Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+260E "☎" Black Telephone is a classic symbol representing a vintage rotary or handset telephone, often depicted as a filled black icon with a receiver unit and a base. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block and was introduced in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, serving as a visual shorthand for telephones, phone calls, or communication in digital text and interfaces. Its design differs from the outlined "U+260F ☏ White Telephone" and is commonly used in contexts ranging from old school communication references to retro themed designs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+260E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Black Telephone |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ☎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ☎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x98 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x260E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000260E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u260e |