U+1F509 · emoji since 2015
The speaker at medium volume plays sound at a comfortable level. It means turn it up a bit, audio on, and just-right loudness.
It marks playing music or a video without blasting it, the balanced setting between quiet and loud.
In texting, 🔉 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🔉 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Speaker Medium Volume emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the speaker medium volume emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🔉 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
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