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Previously displayed with&nbsp;a gendered appearance, now shown as <a href="/neutral/">gender neutral</a> on most platforms.

previously-gendered

A person shown in water with a ball,&nbsp;playing the sport of water polo.&nbsp;

Water Polo

Man Playing Water Polo

Woman Playing Water Polo

A wave of water, as breaks at the beach. Depicted as a blue wave with a foamy, white crest, curling to the right.

May be used to represent water in general, various bodies of water like oceans, and water activities, such as&nbsp;<a href="/person-swimming/">swimming</a>, <a href="/person-surfing/">surfing</a>, and <a href="/sailboat/">sailing</a>. May also&nbsp;be used to represent metaphorical waves.

Apple&rsquo;s design resembles the iconic wave in&nbsp;Japanese artist Hokusai&rsquo;s famous woodblock print, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa">The Great Wave off Kanagawa</a>&nbsp;(ca. 1830).

Water Wave

A person swimming in a pool, the <a href="/water-wave/" title="🌊 Water Wave">ocean</a>, or another body of water.&nbsp;Lacked goggles&nbsp;on prior versions of iOS.

Swims facing to the left of screen on all major platforms.

Swimmer

A person on a surfboard, riding&nbsp;on a wave in the ocean. Wears a wetsuit or&nbsp;board shorts in most versions.

Surfer

A volleyball emoji, showing the round ball used in the sport. Played as part of the <a title="🏊 Olympics" href="/olympics/">Summer Olympic Games</a>.

Volleyball

A goal net where players score points in competitive sporting events. Generally depicted as a goal net used in either <a href="/field-hockey">field hockey</a> or <a href="/ice-hockey">ice hockey</a>.

Goal Net

A person doing a cartwheel, representing the sport of gymnastics.

In June 2023 this emoji was at the center of a viral trend (Ba&rsquo;t 🤸 malungkot 🤸 ang 🤸 beshy 🤸 ko?) based on a scene from an episode of the Philippine television drama anthology show <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpakailanman">Magpakailanman</a>.

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Person Doing Cartwheel

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Emojipedia

Person Playing Water Polo: Light Skin Tone

Person Playing Water Polo: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Person Playing Water Polo: Medium Skin Tone

Person Playing Water Polo: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Person Playing Water Polo: Dark Skin Tone

Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

A licensable emoji design set.

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An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

Sample emoji designs developed by Emojipedia for illustrative purposes.

The Unicode Consortium accepted the following emoji 72 emojis&nbsp;for Unicode 9.0. This update&nbsp;was released&nbsp;on June 21, 2016. Most vendors added support for this update within the 2016 calendar year.&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/unicode-9-0-released-with-72-new-emojis/">Sample images and more about Unicode 9.0</a>.

<a href="/emoji-4.0/">Emoji 4.0</a> was published in late 2016, which added additional emoji professions.

<h2>New in Unicode 9</h2>

Original sample images from Emojipedia&nbsp;visualizing how new emojis may look when they come to fruition.&nbsp;These mockups are created at the candidate stage in a glossy&nbsp;style, and may or may not resemble final versions from each platform vendor.

Please feel welcome to use these images in&nbsp;press coverage,&nbsp;with attribution to&nbsp;Emojipedia. When using any of these images online,&nbsp;a link to this page would be appreciated. These original images are &copy; 2022&nbsp;Emojipedia.

Sample images from Emojipedia for upcoming emojis.

Emojipedia Sample Images [Updated July 2023]

Emojipedia 11.1&nbsp;is the sample image collection for 2018. This features all new emoji designs for <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>, which is the most current approved emoji list.&nbsp;Notable inclusions in 2018&nbsp;include redheads, curly hair,&nbsp;superheroes, a softball, skateboard, lobster and bagel.

This is a minor update to <a href="/emojipedia/11.0/">Emojipedia 11.0</a> which updates artwork for <a href="/dna/">DNA</a>, <a href="/lobster/">Lobster</a>, and <a href="/skateboard/">Skateboard</a>.

Please include a link to Emojipedia for attribution when using&nbsp;these images online. These original images are &copy; 2018&nbsp;Emojipedia.

11.1

Emojipedia 11.0 is the sample image collection for 2018. This features all new emoji designs for <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>.&nbsp;Notable inclusions in this release include redheads, curly hair,&nbsp;superheroes, a softball, skateboard, lobster and bagel.

New emojis: 77 plus&nbsp;skin tones&nbsp;(157 total)

Please include a link to Emojipedia for attribution when using&nbsp;these images online. These original images are &copy; 2018&nbsp;Emojipedia.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/157-new-emojis-in-the-final-2018-emoji-list/">More about this update</a>.

11.0

A minor release that added emojis for&nbsp;<a href="/superhero/">superhero</a> and <a href="/supervillain/">supervillain</a> at a draft stage, prior to these gaining human appearance and skin tone support.

These original sample images are &copy; 2017 Emojipedia.

An update that includes examples of&nbsp;subdivision flags including US States and Liberian Counties. A sample placeholder flag is also included for Northern Ireland.

At the time of release, these flags were not considered <a href="/glossary/#rgi">RGI</a>&nbsp;and as such as not available on most platforms.

Original sample images&nbsp;visualizing the new emojis from&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a>.&nbsp;These were&nbsp;created in an&nbsp;Apple-like&nbsp;style by Emojipedia; as an indication of how they might be displayed when released by vendors.

This version contains changes to a number of image designs, including <a href="/breast-feeding/">breast feeding</a> and <a href="/dumpling/">dumpling</a>.

Please include a link to Emojipedia for attribution when using&nbsp;these images online. Original sample images on this page are &copy; 2017 Emojipedia.

Original sample images&nbsp;visualizing the new emojis from&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a>; released&nbsp;March 27, 2017.&nbsp;These were&nbsp;created in an&nbsp;Apple-like&nbsp;style by Emojipedia; as an indication of how they might be displayed when released by vendors.

There are a total of 69 new unique images in this collection.&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/final-2017-emoji-list/">Learn more about this update</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://youtu.be/9hIJLOgdSZo">view the video</a>&nbsp;of every new emoji.

Please include a link to Emojipedia for attribution when using&nbsp;these images online. Original sample images on this page are &copy; 2017 Emojipedia.&nbsp;Dumpling, Fortune Cookie, Takeout Box and Chopsticks designs were&nbsp;based on original designs from <a href="http://www.yiyinglu.com">Yiying Lu</a>&nbsp;in this release.

Original sample images from Emojipedia&nbsp;visualizing how new emojis may look when they come to fruition. These mockups are created at the candidate stage, and may or may not resemble final versions from each platform vendor.

Please include a link to Emojipedia for attribution when using any of these images online. These original images are &copy; 2017 Emojipedia. Details about <a href="/licensing/">emoji image licensing</a>.

Collection of original sample images&nbsp;from Emojipedia featuring the emojis from&nbsp;<a href="/unicode-9.0/">Unicode 9.0</a>. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/new-unicode-9-emojis/">More about this update</a>.

🤽 Person Playing Water Polo on Emojipedia Sample Images 4.0

🤽 Person Playing Water Polo on Emojipedia Sample Images 4.0

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