The speaker high volume emoji is the digital version of “turn it all the way up” — a speaker blasting three sound waves like your neighbor’s subwoofer at 2 a.m. It’s dropped next to bangers, hype announcements, and all-caps messages that are basically yelling through the screen. People use it for volume warnings, DJ drops, bass-boosted memes, and that moment when your phone betrays you by switching from AirPods to public speaker at max power. Sarcastically, it pairs perfectly with a whispery take or an ASMR clip for instant irony.
On Apple/iOS, it looks like a metallic gray speaker cone in a sleek housing, angled to the right, with three curved sound-wave lines radiating outward. The design has soft gradients and a subtle shine that give it a slightly 3D, glossy vibe, instantly recognizable as the “loud” version compared to the low/medium variants. Online, it reads as loud AF energy: “turn it up,” “sound on,” “this song SLAPS,” or “incoming noise complaint.” It’s also meme shorthand for earrape audio, the aux cord moment of truth, and that one TikTok mix that rattles your soul and your speakers.
Definition
The speaker is missing a few sound waves but we can pretend this speaker has a 2k watt amp attached because we have a good imagination!
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
1117 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
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Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
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Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:loud_sound:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Speaker with Three Sound Waves
Speaker With Three Sound Waves
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
User Interface Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory
User Interface Symbols
Names & Annotations
SPEAKER WITH THREE SOUND WAVES = sound
Symbol Information
U+1F50A proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-821
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[スピーカ]
KDDI
#13 スピーカ 「supiika」 U+E511 SJIS-F6EA JIS-766C
Softbank
#250 #old155 スピーカー 「supiikaa」 U+E141 SJIS-F782
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
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)
1f50a
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F50A
Decimal Code Point(s)
128266
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0x8A
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 94 8A
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 224 212
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDD0A
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddd0a
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56586
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F50A
UTF-32 Hex
01F50A
UTF-32 Dec
128266
Python Src
u"\U0001F50A"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x94\x8a"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDD0A"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
