How to eliminate the telephone emoji in unicode?

During web scraping and after getting rid of all html tags, I got the black telephone character \u260e in unicode (☎). But unlike this response I do want to get rid of it too.

I used the following regular expressions in Scrapy to eliminate html tags:

pattern = re.compile("<.*?>|&nbsp;|&amp;",re.DOTALL|re.M)

Then I tried to match \u260e and I think I got caught by the backslash plague. I tried unsuccessfully this patterns:

pattern = re.compile("<.*?>|&nbsp;|&amp;|\u260e",re.DOTALL|re.M)pattern = re.compile("<.*?>|&nbsp;|&amp;|\\u260e",re.DOTALL|re.M)pattern = re.compile("<.*?>|&nbsp;|&amp;|\\\\u260e",re.DOTALL|re.M)

None of this worked and I still have \u260e as an output.How can I make this disappear?