Mobile Phone With Arrow Emoji
U+1F4F2:calling:About Mobile Phone With Arrow đ˛
Mobile Phone With Arrow () is part of the Objects group in Unicode. Added in Unicode E0.6. Type on GitHub and Slack to use it. Click copy above to grab it, paste it anywhere.
Works in iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, Instagram, Twitter, Gmail, and every app that supports Unicode.
Often associated with arrow, build, call, and 6 more keywords.
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How it looks
What does it mean?
A mobile phone with a right-pointing arrow aimed at it from the left. Officially MOBILE PHONE WITH RIGHTWARDS ARROW AT LEFT, approved in Unicode 6.0 (2010). The visual is literal: something is arriving at this phone.
đ˛ is the 'call me,' 'text me,' 'DM me,' 'install this app,' 'tap the notification' emoji. The arrow is doing all the semantic work. đą on its own is just 'a phone.' đ˛ means 'a phone getting something.' That small difference is what makes the emoji useful, but it's also why many people use them interchangeably without noticing.
In 2026 the emoji carries four overlapping meanings:
1. Incoming communication. Call, text, alert, notification. The original intent.
2. Download or install. Especially in app-promo graphics where 'tap to install' is the CTA.
3. DM me / slide into DMs. đ˛ pairs with đŦ or đ in the flirty 'you know where to find me' register.
4. Share to phone. Some Instagram and TikTok UIs use a similar arrow-phone icon for 'send to phone,' and the emoji picked up that meaning by association.
It's not a high-frequency emoji. In Unicode's global emoji frequency tables, faces and hearts crush it. But it has a specific job, and when the job matches, đ˛ beats the alternatives.
đ˛ shows up in a handful of specific lanes:
'Call me' and 'text me' closings. 'Hit me up đ˛' at the end of an Instagram caption, or 'text me later đ˛' in a chat. It's the modern replacement for the 90s 'CALL ME' pager page.
App install graphics. Every app launch promo uses đ˛ or a similar arrow-to-phone icon. 'Download now đ˛' is built into the graphic grammar of app marketing. Google Play and App Store badges live next to this emoji on launch day posts.
Slide into DMs flirting. After the phrase took off in January 2014, đ˛ started carrying flirty connotations when used one-on-one. 'slide on over đ˛đ' reads as an invitation when sent late at night, and a joke when sent to a friend.
Creator and influencer CTAs. 'New link in bio đ˛' or 'tap to follow đ˛' on Instagram Stories. The emoji functions as a soft arrow for 'do this next.'
Share to your phone moments. AirDrop culture, Live Photo sharing, 'send me that pic đ˛.' The emoji captures the specific moment of content transfer.
Distinct from đą. Subtle but real: đą is passive ('my phone'), đ˛ is active ('something is happening on my phone'). Most people blur them. Careful posters use đ˛ only when there's a direction involved.
A mobile phone with an arrow pointing at it, meaning an incoming call, text, notification, or download. In practice it's used for 'call me,' 'text me,' 'DM me,' 'install this app,' or generally any 'something is happening on my phone' situation.
The Phone Status Quartet
The Communication Devices Family
What it means from...
From a crush, đ˛ usually means 'message me.' It's one step warmer than đą, the arrow implies they want contact to come at them. 'Text me đ˛' from a crush is an opening, not a closer.
Among friends, đ˛ is casual. 'Hit me up đ˛' or 'FaceTime me đ˛.' Nothing flirty, just 'I'm reachable.' It's also the go-to for app-recommend posts: 'download this đ˛.'
In work contexts, đ˛ rarely appears, and when it does it usually means 'call me on my cell' or 'I'll send it to your phone.' It's slightly more casual than the moment deserves in most professional settings.
Yes, sometimes, the emoji picked up a flirty second meaning after the phrase went mainstream in January 2014. In DM or late-night context, đ˛ often reads as 'message me, maybe romantically.' In daylight public posts, it just means 'contact me.'
Emoji combos
Google Trends: the whole communication-device family, 2020-2026
Origin story
đ˛ arrived in Unicode 6.0 (2010), in the same giant wave that included đĄ đ đē đģ đ âī¸, basically the whole 'communication device' family. The timing matters: the iPhone had launched in 2007, Android in 2008. By 2010 the mobile-phone-with-arrow design reflected a specific behavior that was exploding culturally, push notifications, incoming texts, app-install calls to action.
The emoji was Japanese in origin, like most Unicode 6.0 entries. Japanese mobile carriers (au, DoCoMo, SoftBank) had used arrow-phone icons in their in-app graphics for years to mean 'content arriving at phone.' Unicode absorbed that vocabulary and standardized it globally. On most Western platforms, đ˛ reads as generic 'notification' or 'DM,' which is a slightly narrower meaning than the original Japanese UX convention.
The emoji's cultural moment came not from its original meaning but from the slide into DMs phrase that exploded in early 2014. Instagram introduced direct messaging in December 2013, and within weeks the phrase was everywhere. M-Boy's hip-hop single 'Slide Into Your DMs' (January 2014), Urban Dictionary's entry (March 2014), and over 5,000 Instagram hashtags by July 2015 cemented the cultural association. đ˛ became the flirty messaging emoji by osmosis, even though the arrow officially means 'incoming,' not 'slide on over.'
What does đ˛ actually mean when people use it?
Often confused with
đą is a plain mobile phone, passive, neutral, 'my device.' đ˛ has an arrow pointing at the phone, implying action: incoming call, incoming message, download, notification. In practice most people use them interchangeably, but the arrow matters when you mean direction.
đą is a plain mobile phone, passive, neutral, 'my device.' đ˛ has an arrow pointing at the phone, implying action: incoming call, incoming message, download, notification. In practice most people use them interchangeably, but the arrow matters when you mean direction.
đ is a telephone receiver, the 'call me' classic. đ˛ can mean call me too, but it's broader: text, DM, download, anything incoming. Use đ for voice-call specifically; use đ˛ for general mobile activity.
đ is a telephone receiver, the 'call me' classic. đ˛ can mean call me too, but it's broader: text, DM, download, anything incoming. Use đ for voice-call specifically; use đ˛ for general mobile activity.
đ§ is email. đ˛ is phone. Different channels, both 'incoming message,' but the emoji's tell you which medium. Don't use đ˛ for email, that's a distinct thing.
đ§ is email. đ˛ is phone. Different channels, both 'incoming message,' but the emoji's tell you which medium. Don't use đ˛ for email, that's a distinct thing.
đą is a plain mobile phone, neutral, passive, 'a device exists.' đ˛ has an arrow, meaning something is being directed at the phone. Use đą for 'my phone is on the table'; use đ˛ for 'text me on my phone.'
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Fun facts
- âĸđ˛'s official Unicode name is MOBILE PHONE WITH RIGHTWARDS ARROW AT LEFT POINTING AT MOBILE PHONE, possibly the most specific emoji name in the whole standard. It literally describes the geometry.
- âĸThe 'slide into DMs' phrase jumped from niche Twitter slang to mainstream meme in January 2014, right as Instagram DMs went public. By July 2015 there were 5,000+ Instagram hashtags using variants of the phrase.
- âĸđ˛ shares its Unicode 6.0 debut (2010) with nine other communication-device emoji (đąđâī¸đđ đēđģđĄđ°ī¸ came a year later in 6.1/7.0). It was part of a single concerted effort to add Japanese carrier pictographs to global Unicode.
- âĸOn Apple devices, đ˛ renders as an iPhone-shaped rectangle with an arrow, while Samsung historically showed a wider Galaxy-style device. The phone silhouette has quietly updated on most platforms as handset shapes changed.
- âĸApp install flow in the iOS App Store hit peak emoji-use around 2017, with đ˛ appearing on the launch marketing of basically every app. It's the closest thing to a 'download' emoji the Unicode standard offers.
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