U+260E

Telephone☎

Telephone is a monochrome text character from the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block, listed here under Misc & Symbols and Office & Objects. Copy it with one click, or use the hex, octal, decimal and HTML entity codes below to embed it in web pages, code, and documents. It is often searched for as "phone", "call".

Quick facts

Unicode
U+260E
Decimal
9742
Hex
0x260E
Octal
0o23016

Unicode identity

FormatValueCopy
Code pointOfficial Unicode notationU+260E
Official nameUnicodeData.txt, Unicode 18.0.0BLACK TELEPHONE
DecimalBase 109742
HexadecimalBase 160x260E
OctalBase 80o23016
BinaryBase 20010011000001110
General categorySymbol, otherSo
Unicode blockU+2600–U+26FFMiscellaneous Symbols
PlaneBasic Multilingual Plane (BMP, Plane 0)

HTML & CSS

FormatValueCopy
HTML entity (decimal)☎
HTML entity (hex)☎
HTML entity (named)☎
CSS content escapeUse inside content: "…"\260E
URL encodedPercent-encoded UTF-8%E2%98%8E

Programming languages

FormatValueCopy
JavaScript / TypeScript\u260E
JSONUTF-16 surrogate pairs\u260E
Python\u260E
Java / C# / Kotlin\u260E

Byte encodings

FormatValueCopy
UTF-83 bytesE2 98 8E
UTF-16 (BE)260E
UTF-32 (BE)0000260E

How to type Telephone

  • Windows

    Hold Alt and type +260E with the hex numeric keypad option enabled, or type 260E then press Alt+X in Word and most Office apps.

  • macOS

    Enable the Unicode Hex Input keyboard, hold Option, and type 260E. Or open Character Viewer (Control+Command+Space) and search "Telephone".

  • Linux

    Press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 260e, then press Space or Enter in GTK apps. IBus and most terminals support the same sequence.

  • HTML, CSS & code

    Paste the character directly, or use the escapes above: ☎ in HTML, \260E in CSS, and \u260E in JavaScript.

Official Unicode reference

Character name
BLACK TELEPHONE
Block
Miscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF)
General category
So — Symbol, other

Data from the Unicode Character Database, version 18.0.0. See the official code chart for the Miscellaneous Symbols block: U2600.pdf (PDF, unicode.org).

Frequently asked questions

How do I copy the Telephone symbol?

Click the Copy button at the top of this page, or select ☎ and press Ctrl+C (Cmd+C on Mac). It is plain Unicode text, so it pastes into documents, chats, code, and design tools.

What is the Unicode code point for Telephone?

Telephone is U+260E (decimal 9742, hexadecimal 0x260E, octal 0o23016). It lives in the Miscellaneous Symbols block (U+2600–U+26FF) of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP, Plane 0).

What is the official Unicode name of Telephone?

The Unicode Standard (version 18.0.0) names this character "BLACK TELEPHONE". Its General_Category is So (Symbol, other).

What is the HTML code for Telephone?

Use ☎ or ☎, or the named entity ☎. In CSS, use content: "\260E".

How do I type Telephone in code?

JavaScript: "\u260E". Python: "\u260E". JSON and Java: "\u260E". The UTF-8 byte sequence is E2 98 8E.

Is Telephone an emoji?

No. Telephone is a text symbol and renders as a monochrome glyph in the current font. Some platforms may offer an emoji variant when U+FE0F is appended.

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