This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F4DE offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character “telephone receiver” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: communication, phone, receiver, telephone, voip.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Glyph for U+FE0EVariation Selector-15: 📞︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A handset is a component of a telephone that a user holds to the ear and mouth to receive audio through the receiver and speak to the remote party using the built-in transmitter. In earlier telephones, the transmitter was mounted directly on the telephone itself, which was attached to a wall at a convenient height or placed on a desk or table. Until the advent of the cordless telephone, the handset was usually wired to the base unit, typically by a flexible tinsel wire cord.
The handset of a cordless telephone contains a radio transceiver which relays communication via a base station that is wired to the telephone line. A mobile phone does not require a base station and communicates directly with a cell site in designated frequency bands.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
128222
UTF-8
F0 9F 93 9E
UTF-16
D8 3D DC DE
UTF-32
00 01 F4 DE
URL-Quoted
%F0%9F%93%9E
HTML hex reference
📞
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
📞
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
94 39 DF 36
RFC 5137
\u'1F4DE'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\U0001F4DE
C and C++
\U0001F4DE
C#
\U0001F4DE
CSS
\01F4DE
Excel
=UNICHAR(128222)
Go
\U0001F4DE
JavaScript
\uD83D\uDCDE
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{1f4de}
JSON
\uD83D\uDCDE
Java
\uD83D\uDCDE
Lua
\u{1F4DE}
Matlab
char(128222)
Perl
"\x{1F4DE}"
PHP
\u{1f4de}
PostgreSQL
U&'\+01F4DE'
PowerShell
`u{1F4DE}
Python
\U0001F4DE
Ruby
\u{1f4de}
Rust
\u{1f4de}
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