🗨️ Left speech bubble emoji

What is 🗨️ called?

🗨️ is called the Left speech bubble emoji.

What does 🗨️ mean?

🗨️ is an outlined speech bubble for dialogue, a quotation, comment, reply, or comic-style spoken words. Its name describes the bubble’s leftward orientation rather than a political or directional instruction.

It covers much the same conversational ground as 💬 Speech balloon, but its outlined design is useful in diagrams, captions, and sequences where different speakers need distinct bubbles.

Other meanings

Dialogue, quoted speech, a comment, reply, conversation label, caption, comic lettering, or a speaker on one side of an exchange.

Example Usage

Her reply changed the direction of the discussion 🗨️

Add the dialogue inside this bubble 🗨️

More details

Officially named left speech bubble. Its base code point is U+1F5E8, commonly followed by U+FE0F for emoji presentation, and it was introduced in Emoji 2.0.

Related emoji

Communication emojis

• 💬️ Speech balloon
• 👁️‍🗨️ Eye in speech bubble
• 🗯️ Right anger bubble
• 💭️ Thought balloon

Visual description

A white or transparent rounded speech bubble with a dark outline and a small tail positioned toward the left.

Presentation varies between an outlined glyph and a bubble placed on a coloured square. The interior remains blank.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.