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The speaking head is the internet’s go-to “I’m saying this out loud” button. It shows a human face in profile with sound waves streaming from the mouth—classic cartoon speech lines. On Apple/iOS, it’s a smooth, left-facing silhouette with a neutral expression and three curved lines radiating outward; clean gradients make it look like a crisp, minimalist cameo. You can almost hear the “ahem” before the announcement.
People drop it before hot takes, PSAs, or anytime they want megaphone energy—“say it louder for the people in the back.” It tags voice notes, podcast promos, and Twitter/X Spaces invites, and it doubles as a subtweet siren. Used playfully, it signals gossip, storytime, or rant threads; used ironically, it can mean whispering to no one (“me, talking to the void:”). It also works for debate-mode, teacher voice, or that “I said what I said” final word.
In meme-land, it stands in for every “talking head” on news panels, reaction channels, or your friend turning a group chat into a TED Talk. Flirty folks use it as a “lean in and listen” cue; drama lovers hit it before delivering lore. Recognizable at a glance: the side profile, mouth slightly open, and those signature sound arcs—basically subtitles for your mouth.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 196 of 2393 |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :speaking_head: |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Speaking Head in Silhouette |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Rating Symbols |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 Code |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🗣 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🗣 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🗣 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🗣 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f5e3 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F5E3 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128483 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x97 0xA3 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 97 A3 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 227 243 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDDE3 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddde3 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56803 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F5E3 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F5E3 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128483 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F5E3" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x97\xa3" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDDE3" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🗣️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🗣️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🗣 ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🗣 ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f5e3, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F5E3, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128483, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x97 0xA3, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 97 A3, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 227 243, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDDE3, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddde3, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56803, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F5E3 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F5E3, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128483, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F5E3\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x97\xa3\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDDE3\uFE0F" |
