The muted speaker is the universal signal for shhh — a tiny speaker icon with its vibe switch flipped to Silent Mode. People drop it when they can’t play audio (meeting, library, sneaky scrolling on the bus), when they’ve muted a chaotic group chat, or to serve “radio silence” as a reaction. It doubles as sarcasm too: telling drama to hush, announcing you’re ignoring the noise, or admitting a clip is better watched without sound anyway. In meme-speak, it’s big “dead chat energy,” “you’re on mute” during Zoom chaos, and the classic move when you’re speechless but trying to look unbothered.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a metallic gray, side-facing speaker cone crossed by a bold red diagonal slash, with soft shading and a minimal, UI-button feel—no sound waves in sight. That instantly recognizable red line screams volume at zero, perfect for captions like “library mode,” “airplane aisle etiquette,” or “muting haters.” It’s also a cheeky way to say you’re doomscrolling reels at 3 a.m. with the sound off, or that you’ve put notifications in time-out. Quiet never looked so loud.
The speaker cone with a line through it. Means no sound will be heard or mute. Often used as a sound setting notification on electronic devises with customizable sound settings, such as a mobile phone or computer. Shush. Peace and quiet. Don't talk to me. Don't make a sound.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1687 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 | :mute: |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Speaker with Cancellation Stroke |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | User Interface Symbols |
| 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) | 1f507 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F507 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128263 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0x87 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 94 87 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 224 207 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD07 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd07 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56583 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F507 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F507 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128263 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F507" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x94\x87" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD07" |
