Speaking Head Emoji
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What does the Speaking Head emoji mean?
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This icon shows a head silhouette facing right with its mouth open, suggesting speech. It's mostly used to indicate someone is talking — or, when more intense, shouting.
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This emoji shows a character—likely a man—with lines by his mouth to indicate talking. Generally, it represents a speaker: someone who is speaking and trying to explain or clarify something.
Used negatively, it can imply shouting or making condescending, derogatory comments about women. In conversations about feminism, it often carries that dismissive tone. Depending on context, the emoji can be neutral or take on negative connotations.
Also Known As
- 🗣️ Mansplaining
- 🗣️ Shout
- 🗣️ Shouting
Apple Name
- 🗣️ Speaking Silhouette Head
Unicode Name
- 🗣️ Speaking Head in Silhouette
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Speaking Head emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🗣️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F5E3 U+FE0F
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Emojipedia, Discord
- works in Slack, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%97%A3%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--k18h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 97 A3 EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDDE3\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f5e3\uFE0F |
| CSS | \01F5E3 \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F5E3}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{1F5E3}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | 🗣️ |
| HTML dec | 🗣️ |