Headphones Emoji

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Headphone is U+1F3A7, Emoji 0.6, in the group Objects, subgroup music, between Microphone and Radio; the subgroup holds nine emoji and all nine are tiles here. CLDR files Headphone under headphone, earbud and sound, files no other emoji under headphone or earbud, and files none under headset, headphones or earphone; no emoji name holds headset or earbud. Character names are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt): one name holds the word headphone. Unicode's notes (Headphone: music; Level slider: level control; Control knobs: audio control; Musical note cross-refers to Eighth note) are from NamesList.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); U+1F3A7 dates from Unicode 6.0 and U+260A from 1.1 by DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt), and U+1F3A7 has a text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. That an encoded character is never moved or removed is Unicode's Character Encoding Stability Policy (https://www.unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html). The three Han characters are defined as in the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). Code page 437, which the old Alt codes follow, has the two eighth-note characters and no headphone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437). That some apps take decimal Alt numbers up to 65,535 and turn a hexadecimal number into its character with Alt+X is from Wikipedia, Alt code and Unicode input (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input). The emoticon ((d[-_-]b)) is in Wikipedia's List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons); earphones, cans, earbuds and the headset as a headphone with a microphone are from Wikipedia, Headphones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headphones), both CC BY-SA 4.0. The words and sayings are as Wiktionary gives them (CC BY-SA 4.0): headset (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/headset), earbud (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/earbud), cans (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cans), earworm (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/earworm), audiophile (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/audiophile), audiobook (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/audiobook), music to someone's ears (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/music_to_someone's_ears), all ears (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/all_ears), tune out (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tune_out), lend an ear (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lend_an_ear). The other six typed listeners, the two drawings, the eight lines and the fourteen combos are this site's own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, with definitions from the Unihan database, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.