📞 Telephone Receiver
The handset of a traditional telephone, with speaker and microphone. Generally depicted in black at a 45° angle. Like ☎️ Telephone, used for various content concerning literal and figurative phone-calling. Also used as an icon before a phone number. Microsoft’s design is red. Early designs for the telephone receiver emoji from au by KDDI resembled a mobile phone, and vice versa, before having their codepoints swapped in later releases.
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📞 Telephone Receiver
Also known as: Handset, Phone
Unicode: U+1F4DE
Image Variants
3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:
1.0
Unicode Version:
6.0
Keywords
phone receiver telephone
Shortcodes
| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| github | :telephone_receiver: | |
| slack | :telephone_receiver: | |
| discord | :telephone_receiver: |
How It’s Used in Language
Verbs
- To contact by telephone.
- To telephone, to call someone on the telephone.
- To call on the telephone.
- To call someone.
- To contact someone using the telephone.
- Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- To contact someone by dialing his or her telephone number; to make someone's telephone ring using one's own telephone.
- To call (someone) on the telephone.
- To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.
- Operate a dial to select a telephone number
- To enter numbers on a telephone or mobile device in order to make a phone call.
- To select a number on a telephone.
Nouns
- Earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds
- Communication is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of ideas, feelings, intentions, attitudes, expectations, perceptions or commands, as by speech, non-verbal gestures, writings, behavior and possibly by other means such as electromagnetic, chemical or physical phenomena and smell.
- Conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages or information
- The activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information
- Navigation, surveillance", often associated with air traffic management as CNS/ATM
- The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
- Concept of information exchange.
- Communication is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, visuals, signals, writing, or behavior.
- Engineering physics is the study of the combined disciplines of physics, engineering and mathematics in order to develop an understanding of the interrelationships of these three disciplines.
- Science whose results are employed in technical applications.
- Applied science is a discipline of science that applies existing scientific knowledge to develop more practical applications, such as technology or inventions.
- Use of symbols to denote equipment, services, pipelines, boundaries and features.