Telephone Location Sign ✆
Symbol Meaning
This plain symbol U+2706 is still used as a noticeable visual element next to telephone numbers, in contact sections, and when decorating navigation signs. It is relevant due to the clear and accurate design. The handset and cable are fulfilled in the black colour without shadows, outlined frame or other details.
Telephone location sign is one of the oldest symbols in Unicode. It was complemented by other icons only in 2010, when there appeared new signs, such as smartphones, colourful wireless devices.
The symbol “Telephone Location Sign” is included in the “Miscellaneous” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Telephone Location Sign |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Miscellaneous |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2706 |
| Simple case change | 2706 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C 86 | 226 156 134 | 14851206 | 11100010 10011100 10000110 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 06 | 39 6 | 9990 | 00100111 00000110 |
| UTF-16LE | 06 27 | 6 39 | 1575 | 00000110 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 06 | 0 0 39 6 | 9990 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00000110 |
| UTF-32LE | 06 27 00 00 | 6 39 0 0 | 103219200 | 00000110 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
Related Characters
Telephone Location Sign is part of collections:
