The left speech bubble was a proposed and discussed pictographic symbol associated with the 2014-era Unicode and emoji expansion conversations, especially around adding more communication and interface-style symbols. The concept represents a comic-style speech balloon with its tail pointing to the left, suggesting dialogue, a quoted remark, a reply, or someone speaking from the left side of a scene. Unlike the more familiar Speech Balloon emoji, this specific left-facing variant never became a widely recognized Apple-style emoji on mainstream keyboards, even though the idea fits naturally with chat, comments, captions, and messaging culture. It may be referenced in Unicode symbol contexts, but it is best understood historically as a niche communication symbol rather than a popular standalone emoji.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.
