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On Apple/iOS, it’s rendered as a classic handheld bullhorn angled slightly left: a smooth white/cream body, a bold red ring circling the mouth, and a chunky red handle/trigger. The art uses clean gradients and simple shading with no labels. It’s not the yellow, mounted PA Loudspeaker—this is the cheer-captain, street-march, coach-on-the-sidelines special. The compact cone, glossy finish, and red accents practically announce, “this thing gets loud.”

Online, it often rides alongside all-caps openers like “ATTENTION EVERYONE,” “PSA,” or “BREAKING:” for meme-level emphasis. People flip it for irony—blare the horn, then whisper a spicy take in tiny text for extra laughs—or use it flirtatiously: “ATTENTION: you’re cute, that is all.” Stan culture leans on it for comeback promos, streaming reminders, and coordinated hype (“stream it, besties!”). You’ll spot it in activism posts, pep-rally jokes, and any moment you’re rallying the troops.

Functionally, the megaphone emoji is your digital bullhorn when you need the room’s focus—rallies, big reveals, hype trains, and dramatic PSAs all live here. It broadcasts urgency, excitement, and straight “listen up!” energy, whether you’re announcing a new drop, celebrating a game-day win, or plotting the group chat’s weekend plans. Emotionally, it’s caps lock in emoji form: bold, loud, a little theatrical, and totally unapologetic.

Definition

Also known as a speaking trumpet.

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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

1. This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
2. In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.

Emoji General Information

Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)	578 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture	Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name	:mega:
Keywords
Previous Names:	Cheering Megaphone

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range	1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory	Communication Symbols

Proposed Unicode Information & Notes

Unicode Category	Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory	Communication Symbols
Names & Annotations	CHEERING MEGAPHONE Temporary Notes: also used for a general megaphone
Symbol Information	U+1F4E3 proposed
Proposal Identifier	e-530

Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes

DoCoMo	[メガホン]
KDDI	#13 スピーカ 「supiika」 U+E511 SJIS-F6EA JIS-766C
Softbank	#151 #old293 応援(メガホン) 「応援(megahon)」 U+E317 SJIS-F9B7

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)	1f4e3
Formal Unicode Notation	U+1F4E3
Decimal Code Point(s)	128227
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0xA3
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	F0 9F 93 A3
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	360 237 223 243
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xD83D 0xDCE3
UTF-16 Hex	d83ddce3
UTF-16 Dec	55357 56547
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0001F4E3
UTF-32 Hex	01F4E3
UTF-32 Dec	128227
Python Src	u"\U0001F4E3"
PHP Src	"\xf0\x9f\x93\xa3"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uD83D\uDCE3"

Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)