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Microsoft 3D Fluent

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Noto Color Emoji, Animated

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Toss Face (토스페이스)

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Australia Day

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Emoji Movie

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Winter Olympics

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World Emoji Day

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Symbols

Flags

A thumbtack (drawing pin), as used to pin documents on a bulletin (notice) board. Depicted at a 45&deg; angle with its red, flat head to the upper right.

Often used as an icon for Pinterest or metaphorically pinning content online. Not to be confused with <a href="/round-pushpin/">📍 Round Pushpin</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Pushpin

A pushpin, as used to indicate a location on a <a href="/world-map/">map</a>. Generally depicted as an upright pin with a red, round head.

Commonly used to indicate locations and notably featured in the <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pushpin-emoji-detour">Pushpin Emoji Detour</a> and <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/distance-between">Distance Between</a> memes on Twitter. Also used unofficially as an icon for Pinterest or Google Maps.

Facebook&rsquo;s pin is oriented at a 45&deg; angle, as were previous designs on several other platforms.

Not to be confused with <a href="/pushpin/">📌 Pushpin</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Round Pushpin

Two or more silver <a href="/paperclip/">paper clips</a> linked together, generally forming an inverted V.&nbsp;Microsoft&rsquo;s design displays three paper clips.

Occasionally used to represent school/office supplies or metaphorical connections. Also sometimes used as an icon before a <a href="/link/">hyperlink</a>.

Not to be confused with <a href="/link/">🔗 Link</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="/chains/">⛓️ Chains</a>.

Linked Paperclips

A silver safety pin or clip, as used to fasten fabric. Generally shown clasped at a 45&deg; angle, with its spring at the lower left.

May be used for various content concerning arts, crafts, and sewing. Not to be confused with <a href="/paperclip/">📎&nbsp;Paperclip</a>.

Safety Pin

A silver paper clip, as used to hold together sheets of paper&mdash;or remove a SIM card from a <a href="/mobile-phone/">mobile phone</a>. Shown positioned at various angles.

Occasionally used to represent school/office supplies. Also sometimes used as an icon before a <a href="/link/">hyperlink</a>. Displays as Microsoft mascot&nbsp;<a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/clippy">Clippy</a>&nbsp;on Windows 11.

Not to be confused with <a href="/link/">🔗 Link</a>, <a href="/linked-paperclips/">🖇️ Linked Paperclips</a>, <a href="/chains/">⛓️ Chains</a>, or&nbsp;<a href="/safety-pin/">🧷 Safety Pin</a>.

Paperclip

A white piece of paper, curled up at the bottom to the left or right, with text printed on it, as a business letter. Commonly used for content concerning various types of documents and writing.

Most platforms indicate text with dark lines. Apple&rsquo;s design features an easter egg, addressed Dear Katie with text from its 1997&ndash;2002 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different">Crazy Ones/Think Different</a> ad campaign:

Here&rsquo;s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They&#39;re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can&#39;t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward&hellip;

Samsung&rsquo;s design is addressed Dear Samsung. <a href="/au-kddi/type-a-2/page-with-curl/">Early designs</a> from au by KDDI resemble <a href="/page-facing-up/">📄 Page Facing Up</a>, suggesting this emoji may have been originally intended to represent documents on a computer.

Not to be confused with <a href="/page-facing-up/">📄 Page Facing Up</a> or other emojis featuring sheets of paper.

Page with Curl

A spool of thread, as used for sewing. Thread color varies across platforms, though often depicted in red or blue and on a wooden spool. Sometimes shown with an end unraveling.

Commonly used for various content concerning sewing, knitting, arts and crafts, clothing and fashion, and metaphorical threads (e.g., a discussion thread online).

WhatsApp&nbsp;and Microsoft&#39;s&nbsp;designs includes a needle.

Spool of Thread

A white piece of paper, its top right corner curled or dog-eared, with text printed on it, as a business letter or icon for a document on a computer. Commonly used for content concerning various types of documents and writing.

Most platforms indicate text with dark lines. Apple&rsquo;s design features an easter egg, addressed Dear Katie and signed Take care from <a href="https://www.mactrast.com/2017/05/who-exactly-is-john-appleseed/">John Appleseed</a> with the text of its 1997&ndash;2002 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different">Crazy Ones/</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different">Think Different</a> ad campaign:

Here&rsquo;s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They&rsquo;re not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can&rsquo;t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

<a href="/au-kddi/type-a-2/page-facing-up/">Early designs</a> from au by KDDI show a slanted document, suggesting this emoji may have been originally intended to represent a&nbsp;digital document being sent electronically.

Not to be confused with <a href="/page-with-curl/">📃 Page With Curl</a> or other emojis featuring sheets of paper.

Page Facing Up

A&nbsp;dart board with dart hitting the center / bullseye region.

Direct Hit

A rectangular map of the world. Generally depicted as a paper map creased at its folds, Earth&rsquo;s surface shown in green on blue ocean.

Commonly represent maps, travel, exploration, and geography. May also represent various content concerning the world as a whole, e.g., global or international issues.

<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/world-map/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/world-map/">Samsung&rsquo;s design</a> previously depicted outlines of the continents.

World Map

Two links of a silver <a href="/chains/">chain</a>, positioned at a 45&deg; angle. Used as an icon for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink">hyperlink</a> on computers and the internet. May also be used for metaphorical connections.

Not to be confused with&nbsp;<a href="/chains/">⛓️Chains</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/paperclip/">📎 Paperclip</a>, <a href="/linked-paperclips/">🖇️ Linked Paperclips</a>, or <a href="/safety-pin/">🧷 Safety Pin</a>.

Link Symbol

A pointed knife with a steel blade, as used for thrusting in close combat. Generally depicted as double-edged with a black, brown or gold&nbsp;cross-shaped hilt and positioned at 45&deg; angle, often with its tip at the lower left.

May represent knives and other bladed weapons (cf. <a href="/crossed-swords/">⚔️&nbsp;Crossed Swords</a>) as well as various senses of cutting and stabbing. Often applied to medieval or fantasy content.

Google&rsquo;s design&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-9.0/dagger/">previously</a> featured&nbsp;an icy-blue blade and <a href="/sparkles/">sparkles</a>, suggests a dagger <a href="/elf/">elves</a> may wield in fantasy.

May be paired with (or defended by) <a href="/shield/">🛡️&nbsp;Shield</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/kitchen-knife/">🔪&nbsp;Kitchen Knife</a>.

Dagger Knife

A pair of scissors, as used to cut paper or <a href="/person-getting-haircut/">hair</a>. Generally shown open, blades down, with red handles. Commonly used for content concerning haircuts, fashion design, arts and crafts, and various senses of cutting.

WhatsApp&rsquo;s design features green handles with blades pointed up.

See the glossary for the term <a href="/glossary/#black" title="📖 Glossary">black</a> in Unicode character names.

Black Scissors

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Emojipedia

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.

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

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.

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.

Released in&nbsp;October&nbsp;2010, Unicode 6.0 was the first version of the Unicode Standard to support emoji.

Some characters in <a href="/unicode-5.2/">prior</a>&nbsp;versions of Unicode were retroactively updated to provide&nbsp;an emoji presentation. This release was the first to introduce new characters for the sole purpose of compatability with emojis being used in Japan.

Emojis from Microsoft are&nbsp;supported on PCs and tablets&nbsp;running Windows 11, Windows 10, as well as Xbox. There were also available on Windows phones prior to them being&nbsp;discontinued. These are provided by the Segoe UI Emoji font, although some applications continue to show black and white emojis from an earlier release.

As of the <a href="/microsoft/windows-11-november-2021-update/">Windows 11&nbsp;November 2021 </a>update, the platform includes the <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/new-fluent-emoji-designs-from-microsoft/">new Fluent emoji design set</a>&nbsp;that was first previewed ahead of 2021&#39;s <a href="/world-emoji-day/">World Emoji Day</a>. Windows 10&#39;s last emoji update was the&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10-may-2019-update/">May 2019 Update</a>, which supported emoji from up to early 2019&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>.

Note: <a href="https://emojipedia.org/microsoft-teams/">Microsoft Teams </a>and <a href="/skype/">Skype</a> use&nbsp;a different emoticon set with an alternative animated design.

Emojis from Microsoft including Windows 11 Fluent Emoji Designs and Windows 10 Segoe UI Emoji.

Microsoft Emoji List — Emojis for Windows 11, Windows 10 and Xbox

Beginning its global rollout on 2023-10-31, the Windows11 23H2 update introduced support for <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0">Emoji 15.0</a>&nbsp;to the flat versions of the&nbsp;Fluent emoji design set used by the OS since its <a href="https://emojipedia.org/microsoft/windows-11-november-2021-update">November 2021</a> update.

This update also redesigned a selection of emojis within the flat Fluent set. These redesigns include many smiley emojis&nbsp;having the size and positioning of their dotted black pupils subtly modified, the&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/folded-hands">🙏 Folded Hands</a> being shown&nbsp;isometrically, the <a href="https://emojipedia.org/alien">👽 Alien</a> changed from grey to green once again, and the previously atypical width of the vendor&#39;s four-person family emoji designs&nbsp;being revised.

Additionally, a bug appears to have swapped the designs of the various&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/deaf-man">🧏&zwj;♂️ Deaf Man</a> and&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/deaf-woman">🧏&zwj;♀️ Deaf Woman</a> emojis.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/microsoft-windows-11-23h2-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

Windows 11 23H2

Beginning its rollout on 2022-09-20, Window 11&#39;s 22H2 update introduced support for <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> emojis such as <a href="/melting-face/">🫠 Melting Face</a>, <a href="/saluting-face/">🫡 Saluting Face</a>, and <a href="/heart-hands/">🫶 Heart Hands</a>.

This update also revised a number of previous-released emoji designs.&nbsp;Notably, the colored heart emojis such as&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/red-heart/">❤️ Red Heart</a> were given additional details.

Additionally, each of the hand gesutre and people emojis without a skin tone modifier were given a revised base skin tone color.

Windows 11 22H2

Beginning its rollout on 2021-11-22, Window 11&#39;s November 2021 update redesigned all of Microsoft&#39;s emojis, officially launching the <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/11/22/express-yourself-with-new-emoji-now-available-in-windows-11/">2D incarnation</a> of the platform&#39;s Fluent&nbsp;emoji set. The&nbsp;Fluent&nbsp;redesign was <a href="https://medium.com/microsoft-design/emotionality-at-work-398182387adc">first&nbsp;previewed</a> ahead of <a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day</a> 2021.

This update was the first to support <a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>&nbsp;recommendations such as&nbsp;<a href="/heart-on-fire/">❤️&zwj;🔥 Heart on Fire</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/face-in-clouds/">😶&zwj;🌫️ Face in Clouds</a> on Windows.

Windows 11 November 2021 Update

Microsoft Windows 11&nbsp;launched&nbsp;on 2021-10-05, and was the first version of Windows update to support&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>. Emojis in this release are displayed in the thick outlined&nbsp;Segoe Color Emoji&nbsp;style from Windows 10, instead of the <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/new-fluent-emoji-designs-from-microsoft/">Fluent designs</a> previewed ahead of <a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day 2021</a>.

Support for <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>&nbsp;was initially made available via Windows 10 Insiders Builds <a href="https://twitter.com/Emojipedia/status/1337183890063187971">in December 2020</a>.

Windows 11

Windows 10 May 2019 update began rolling out on 2019-05-21, and was the first Windows release to support <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-may-2019-update-emoji-changelog/">More about this release</a>.

Windows 10 May 2019 Update

Windows 10 October 2018 Update (often referred to as&nbsp;Fall 2018 Update&nbsp;prior to release) was released on October 2, 2018 and is the first Windows release to support <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>.

This update also includes a number of&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10-october-2018-update/changed/">changes</a>&nbsp;to emoji appearance.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-october-2018-update-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Windows 10 October 2018 Update

Windows 10 April 2018 Update (commonly referred to as&nbsp;Spring Creators Update&nbsp;prior to release) was released on April 30, 2018 and includes a number of <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-april-2018-update/changed/">changes</a> to emoji appearance mainly to bring emoji design in line with other platforms. No new emojis were added in this release. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-april-2018-update-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

📌 Pushpin on Microsoft Windows 8.1

📌 Pushpin on Microsoft Windows 8.1

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