Technical information

Symbol
NameTelephone sign
Unicode numberU+2121
CategoryLetterlike SymbolsTelephone Symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ℡, or U+2121, is known as the "Telephone Sign". It belongs to the "Letterlike Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a stylized representation of the word "Tel", which is short for "Telephone". It is used primarily to indicate that the following numbers are a telephone number. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity℡
HTML Entity (hex)℡
URL Escape Code%E2%84%A1
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x84 0xA1
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000100:10100001
UTF-160x2121
UTF-320x00002121

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2121"
CSS Code\2121
JavaScript"\u2121"
Perl\x{2121}
Python 2u"\u2121"
Python 3\u2121
Ruby\u{2121}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ℡ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#8481;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2121";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References