U+2706 "✆" Telephone Location Sign Unicode Character

U+2706 "✆" Telephone Location Sign is a graphic symbol representing a classic telephone handset inside a circle or an outlined rectangle, which historically indicated the presence of a public payphone or a telephone facility at that specific location. Originally part of the Wingdings and Webdings fonts, this character was encoded in the Unicode standard under the Dingbats block to provide a digital representation for telecommunication signage. Its design varies slightly across different fonts, but the core iconography remains unmistakably linked to a fixed telephone point, making it useful for mapping, wayfinding, and retro-themed user interfaces.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2706
Version Added	1.1
Name	Telephone Location Sign
Block	Dingbats
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	✆
HTML Hex Encoding	✆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0x9C 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2706
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002706
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2706

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	Alphabetic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Pattern Syntax	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other