Technical information

Symbol
NameBlack telephone
Unicode numberU+260E
CategoryTelephone Symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ☎, or U+260E, is known as the "Black Telephone". It falls under the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and belongs to the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The icon depicts an old-style rotary dial telephone seen from a top-down perspective. It's commonly used in various contexts to represent telephones or phone calls in general, such as in contact information on a website or to signify customer service. Despite advancements in technology, this traditional telephone symbol remains universally recognized.

Encoding

HTML Entity☎
HTML Entity (hex)☎
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%98%8E
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x98 0x8E
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011000:10001110
UTF-160x260E
UTF-320x0000260E

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u260E"
CSS Code\260E
JavaScript"\u260E"
Perl\x{260E}
Python 2u"\u260E"
Python 3\u260E
Ruby\u{260E}

Preview

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

Font size:

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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>&#9742;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\260E";
}

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