what does this symbol mean?
IEC 60417 A loudspeaker with a cross beside it

Mute symbol

Mute. A loudspeaker crossed out means the sound is off.

How to read it

A loudspeaker with a cross or a stroke through it is the mute symbol. Unicode encodes it as U+1F507, the speaker with cancellation stroke,, next to the plain speaker, U+1F508. Windows has its own Mute icon in Microsoft’s Segoe Fluent icon set.

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