Bell With Slash 🔕

This emoji shows the same golden bell from its counterpart, but with a bold diagonal line slashing through it—the universal symbol for "no" or "forbidden." The design makes it instantly clear that sound, notifications, or disturbance is being actively blocked or rejected.

When you send the muted bell, you're essentially saying "silence please," "do not disturb," or "I'm turning off notifications." It's become the digital equivalent of putting your phone on silent or closing the door to your office. People use it to signal they're in focus mode, attending an event where noise isn't welcome, or just need some peace and quiet. In group chats, it's a humorous way to say "stop tagging me" or "I'm ignoring all of this."

Beyond the literal interpretation, this emoji carries a sense of boundary-setting. It can mean you're opting out, ghosting a conversation, or making it clear you don't want to hear about something. It's gentler than a block or mute, but still firm.

The slashed bell design is fairly consistent across platforms, though the thickness and angle of the slash varies slightly between Apple, Google, and Samsung. Interestingly, this emoji wasn't added until Unicode 1.0 in 2015, making it one of the newer entrants to the core set, and it's grown increasingly relevant as notification fatigue became a real cultural concern.