Speech balloon Emoji

Smileys

A grey or white speech bubble with three small dots inside, resembling a classic dialogue cloud found in comic books. The graphic is designed to represent spoken words or a live, incoming text message.

Usage Context

This emoji is the standard way to signal that a conversation is happening or to denote a comment section on a social platform. It is frequently used to initiate a direct message or to represent the 'is typing...' indicator seen in apps like iMessage or WhatsApp. It is often paired with 💭 to show a private thought or 🗯 for more aggressive shouting.

History

Part of the Unicode 6.0 set released in 2010, this icon draws its lineage from the 'speech balloon' used in 20th-century print media to convey dialogue. It was adopted into digital character sets to bridge the gap between static text and real-time instant messaging interfaces.

Details

Glyph

💬

Unicode

U+1F4AC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f4ac:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDCAC;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Smileys

Subcategory emotion

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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