Apple

au by KDDI

Clubhouse

Discord

Docomo

Dropbox

emojidex

Emojipedia Sample Images

Facebook

GitHub

Google Noto Color Emoji

Huawei

Icons8

Instagram

JoyPixels

JoyPixels Animations

LinkedIn

Mastodon

Messenger

Microsoft

Microsoft 3D Fluent

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Mozilla

MSN Messenger

Nintendo

Noto Color Emoji, Animated

Noto Emoji Font

OpenMoji

Roblox

Samsung

SerenityOS

Sharp

Signal

Sina Weibo

Skype

Slack

Snapchat

SoftBank

Sony Playstation

Telegram

TikTok

Tinder

Toss Face (토스페이스)

Twitch

Twitter Emoji Stickers

Twitter / X

Viber

VinSmart

WeChat

WhatsApp

Yahoo! Messenger

Yo Status

YouTube

Zoom

Australia Day

Bastille Day

Birthday

Black Friday

Black Lives Matter

Canada Day

Carnaval

Chinese New Year

Christmas

Cinco de Mayo

Coronavirus

Couples With Hearts

Diwali

Dragon Boat Festival

Earth Day

Easter

Emoji Movie

Fall / Autumn

Families

Fantasy & Magic

Father’s Day

Festivus

Four Twenty / 420

Gestures

Graduation

Guy Fawkes

Halloween

Handshakes

Hanukkah

Happy

Hearts

Holi

Independence Day

International Women's Day

Jobs & Roles

Juneteenth

Kisses

Laughing

LGBT Pride

Love

Mardi Gras

MLB World Series

Mother’s Day

Music

New Year’s Eve

NSFW

Olympics

People Holding Hands

Pets

Purim

Queen’s Birthday

Ramadan

Spring

St Patrick’s Day

Summer

Super Bowl

Thanksgiving

Valentine’s Day

Veterans Day

Wedding / Marriage

Winter

Winter Olympics

Working From Home

World Book Day

World Cup

World Emoji Day

Smileys

People

Animals & Nature

Food & Drink

Activity

Travel & Places

Objects

Symbols

Flags

A spiral-bound calendar. Generally depicted as a monthly calendar, with a red or blue header. Apple and Samsung&rsquo;s pages are curled up at the bottom right, as to flip for a new&nbsp;month.

Like <a href="/calendar/">📅 Calendar</a> and <a href="/tear-off-calendar/">📆 Tear-Off Calendar</a>, commonly used as an icon for specific upcoming events or memorial dates. Also used for various content concerning time, date, schedules, planning, and observances and&nbsp;occasions more generally.

Microsoft, Twitter and Facebook&rsquo;s design feature a generic month. WhatsApp&#39;s design shows in a green header February, when it was incorporated in 2009. Apple, Samsung, and JoyPixels&rsquo;s designs show the month of July, when <a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day</a> falls on the 17th, a date Google&#39;s design <a href="/google/android-8.0/spiral-calendar/">used to</a> specifically display.

Spiral Calendar Pad

A single date on a calendar. Generally depicted as a page torn off from a daily desk calendar, displaying month&nbsp;and day on a white, square page.

Like <a href="/tear-off-calendar/">📆 Tear-Off Calendar</a> and <a href="/spiral-calendar/">🗓️ Spiral Calendar</a>, commonly used as an icon for specific upcoming events or memorial dates. Also used for various content concerning time, date, schedules, planning, and observances and&nbsp;occasions more generally.

The date shown is July 17. This date was first used by Apple as a reference to <a href="https://gizmodo.com/fun-fact-time-icals-birthday-is-today-279393">when iCal for Mac premiered at MacWorld Expo in 2002</a>. Since 2014 Emojipedia has celebrated&nbsp;<a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day</a>&nbsp;on July 17, because of this emoji.

Major platforms previously used a variety of dates on this calendar, but have changed in recent years to also show July 17, to avoid confusion on World Emoji Day.&nbsp;Some vendors still feature easter egg dates marking company&nbsp;founding&nbsp;or other milestones:

<ul>
	<li>📅 Apple: July 17 (Mac iCal announcement in 2002, later World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Google: July 17 (World Emoji Day; previously a generic monthly calendar)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Microsoft: a generic month</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Samsung: July 17 (World Emoji Day; <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/calendar/">previously</a> a monthly calendar turned to May)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;WhatsApp: Feb 24 (incorporation of WhatsApp in 2009)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Twitter/X: Jul 17&nbsp; (changed from&nbsp;March 21 which was&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/20">founding date</a>&nbsp;of Twitter in 2006; <a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/calendar/">previously</a> July 15, the date Twitter launched)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Facebook: May 14 (birthday of founder Mark Zuckerberg; <a href="/facebook/2.0/calendar/">previously</a> a generic 3rd)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Huawei: September 15</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;JoyPixels: July 17&nbsp;(World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅 SerenityOS: 10</li>
</ul>

Discontinued:

<ul>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Messenger: August (first release&nbsp;of Messenger apps in 2011)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;LG: Mar 27 (unknown)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;HTC: generic</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Mozilla: July 17 (World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;emojidex: Tuesday, Jan 12 (unknown)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Softbank: generic</li>
	<li>📅 Docomo: 12 (suggesting the number of months in a year)&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
	<li>📅 au by KDDI: 12</li>
</ul>

Calendar

A set of tabbed dividers or file guides, as used to organize a <a href="/card-index/">card index</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="/card-file-box/">file box</a>. Depicted with three or more multicolored tabs on manila paper.

Commonly used for various content concerning paper or computer files, organization, and various types of data, information, and professional or academic work.

WhatsApp&rsquo;s design features tabbed index cards. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/card-index-dividers/">previously suggested</a> a blue, multi-tabbed file folder.

Card Index Dividers

A card index, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolodex">Rolodex</a>, once used to organize and access cards containing the information of personal or business contacts. Depicted as a black or gray rotating device with a contact card displayed, including a graphic and text.

Occasionally used to represent contact details/information and&nbsp;business cards. Thanks to its appearance, this emoji&nbsp;is sometimes mistaken for such things as documents or word processing.

Apple&rsquo;s design features a picture of its <a href="/woman/">👩 Woman</a>, identified as Jane Appleseed (<a href="/apple/ios-6.0/card-index/">previously</a> <a href="https://www.mactrast.com/2017/05/who-exactly-is-john-appleseed/">John Appleseed</a>) with the following contact details as an easter egg:

appleseed@me.com 
125 Main St. 
City Name, CA 95014 
Work: (408) 123-4567 
Home: (400) 765-4321

95014 is the zip code (postcode) for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Park">Apple&rsquo;s corporate headquarters</a> in Cupertino, California.

JoyPixels features its <a href="/woman-health-worker/">👩&zwj;⚕️ Woman Health Care Worker</a>.&nbsp;WhatsApp&#39;s design also shows the picture of a woman.

Card Index

A single date on a calendar. Generally depicted as a page on a two-ringed, daily desk calendar, as flipped or torn off to change the date. Displays&nbsp;month and day on a white, square page, curled up at the bottom right.

Like <a href="/calendar/">📅 Calendar</a> and <a href="/spiral-calendar/">🗓️ Spiral Calendar</a>, commonly used as an icon for specific upcoming events or memorial dates. Also used for various content concerning time, date, schedules, planning, and observances and&nbsp;occasions more generally.

The date shown is July 17. This date was first used by Apple as a reference to <a href="https://gizmodo.com/fun-fact-time-icals-birthday-is-today-279393">when iCal for Mac premiered at MacWorld Expo in 2002</a>. Since 2014 Emojipedia has celebrated&nbsp;<a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day</a>&nbsp;on July 17, because of this emoji.

Major platforms previously used a variety of dates on this calendar, but have changed in recent years to also show July 17, to avoid confusion on World Emoji Day.&nbsp;Some vendors still feature easter egg dates marking company&nbsp;founding&nbsp;or other milestones:

<ul>
	<li>📅 Apple: July 17 (Mac iCal announcement in 2002, later World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Google: July 17 (World Emoji Day; <a href="/google/android-7.0/tear-off-calendar/">previously</a> a generic 12, as months in the year)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Microsoft: a generic month</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Samsung: July 17 (World Emoji Day; <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/tear-off-calendar/">previously</a> a generic 31)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;WhatsApp: Feb 24 (incorporation of WhatsApp in 2009)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Twitter: Jul 17&nbsp; (changed from&nbsp;March 21 which was&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/20">founding date</a>&nbsp;of Twitter in 2006; <a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/calendar/">previously</a> July 15, the date Twitter launched)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Facebook: February 4 (date of founding in 2004; <a href="/facebook/2.0/tear-off-calendar/">previously</a> a generic 31)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Huawei: September 15</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;JoyPixels: July 17&nbsp;(World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅 SerenityOS: 10</li>
</ul>

Discontinued:

<ul>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Messenger: August 9 (first release&nbsp;of Messenger apps in 2011)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;LG: March 27 (unknown)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;HTC: generic 3</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Mozilla: July 17 (World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;emojidex: December 12 (unknown)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Softbank: 12&nbsp;(suggesting the number of months in a year)&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
	<li>📅 Docomo: 12</li>
	<li>📅 au by KDDI: 12</li>
</ul>

Tear-Off Calendar

A seashell, as found at the <a href="/beach-with-umbrella/">beach</a>. Generally depicted as an empty, spiraling, white seashell, as grown by a sea <a href="/snail/">snail</a> or home to a hermit crab. Positioned at various angles across platforms.

Often used for various content concerning beaches, ocean and ocean life, and summer fun.

Apple&rsquo;s design <a href="/apple/ios-4.0/spiral-shell/">previously</a> resembled a clam shell, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/spiral-shell/">Microsoft&rsquo;s</a> a snail shell. <a href="/google/android-7.0/spiral-shell/">Google&rsquo;s</a> was previously blue.

Spiral Shell

A spiral-bound, flip-style notepad or notebook of lined paper, as used for everyday note-taking. Commonly used for content concerning various types of documents and writing.

Most platforms depict a notepad opened to an empty, white page, sometimes shown curled at the bottom. Microsoft&rsquo;s design is shown closed, with a yellow cover.

Spiral Note Pad

An icon used to&nbsp;represent a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone">cyclone</a>.&nbsp;Some versions of this emoji&nbsp;show&nbsp;a&nbsp;spiral shape, which may be used for decorative purposes.

This emoji is not supported in Twitter / X names, possibly in an attempt to minimize confusion with a verified checkmark. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/why-you-cant-use-these-emojis-in-your-twitter-name/">Learn more here</a>.

Cyclone

A classic yellow pencil. Depicted as a graphite pencil, like a U.S. #2 or European HB, with a sharpened tip and pink eraser. Positioned at a 45&deg; angle, with its tip at the lower left or right. Commonly used for various content concerning writing, drawing, and schooling.

Samsung&rsquo;s pencil was <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/pencil/">previously red</a>, Google&rsquo;s <a href="/google/android-7.0/pencil/">green</a>.

Pencil

A wristwatch, as used for telling time. Appearance varies across platforms, but widely depicted as an analog timepiece with a white face and brown or black straps.

Used for various content concerning time, including watches as accessories. Apple&#39;s design is an Apple Watch, though <a href="/apple/ios-6.0/watch/">previously featured</a> a traditional watch before the product&rsquo;s release.

Watch

A spiral-bound, yellow, hardcover notebook. Intended to depict a financial ledger, as used in accounting.

Commonly used for various content concerning writing, drawing, reading, and schooling. May also be used as a yellow accent color.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/ledger/">Google</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/ledger/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> designs were previously blue.

Ledger

A yellow face with a party hat blowing a party horn as confetti floats around its head. Used for celebrating joyous occasions (such as <a href="/new-years-eve/">New Year&#39;s Eve</a> or <a href="/world-emoji-day/">World Emoji Day</a>) and enjoying good times more generally.

Apple&rsquo;s design features the same expression as its <a href="/kissing-face-with-closed-eyes/">😚&nbsp;Kissing Face With Closed Eyes</a>.

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<div id="professor_prebid-root">&nbsp;</div>

Face with Party Horn and Party Hat

A place to store notes and other office materials. Primarily used by older people.

Generally&nbsp;shown as a brown case with a handle on top, and a silver or gold colored clasp on the front. Facebook shows two leather straps on the front.

Briefcase

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

A paper ticket, which may be for a theatre show, sporting event, or other ticketed performance. Shown in blue, yellow or grey on most platforms.

Ticket

A black or gray box with a label holder, containing <a href="/card-index/">card index dividers</a> with multicolored tabs, as used to organize and store files.&nbsp;Apple and Facebook&rsquo;s designs include a lid.

Commonly used for various content concerning paper or computer files, organization, and various types of data, information, and professional or academic work.

Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/card-file-box/">previously resembled</a> a shoebox.

Card File Box

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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.

&nbsp;

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.

&nbsp;

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

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.

&nbsp;

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

The Unicode Consortium approved the following characters as part of <a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode7.0.0/">Unicode 7.0</a>, released on June 16, 2014.&nbsp;Support for these emoji characters rely on updates from platform vendors such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

Initially, 250&nbsp;new characters in Unicode 7.0 were approved for emoji presentation, however this was later reduced to 103 Standard Additions which are listed below. The other characters remain part of Unicode, but are not recommended&nbsp;to be included as emojis.

The exception to this was the <a href="/left-speech-bubble/" title="🗨 Left Speech Bubble">Left Speech Bubble</a>, and as such wasn&#39;t initially specified on other platforms as an emoji. A later-accepted&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/diverse-spy-proposal/">proposal</a>&nbsp;updated this.

Emojis displayed on iPhone, iPad,&nbsp;Mac, <a href="/apple-watch/">Apple Watch</a> and Apple TV use the&nbsp;Apple Color Emoji font installed on&nbsp;iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS. Some Apple devices support&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/memoji/">Memoji</a>.&nbsp;

The&nbsp;<a href="/apple-logo/">&nbsp;Apple logo</a>&nbsp;is a&nbsp;Private Use Area&nbsp;(PUA) character that is not cross-platform compatible&nbsp;but does work on Apple devices. Previously the&nbsp;<a href="/beats-1-logo/"> Beats 1 logo</a>&nbsp;was also supported as a PUA.

In March 2024 <a href="/apple/ios-17.4">iOS 17.4</a> included new emojis from <a href="/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1.</a>

Full list of emojis supported on Apple platforms including new 2024 emojis in iOS 17.4 (iPhone), iPadOS, macOS Big Sur, watchOS and tvOS. New emojis, and emoji image comparisons.

🍏 Apple Emoji List — Emojis for iPhone, iPad and macOS [Updated: 2024]

New emojis from Apple for 2024.

Released on 5 March 2024 for iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4, this was the first version of iOS to support the 118 new emojis in <a href="/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a>, including various direction-specific people emojis.

This update also changed all family emojis to display with one of the four silhouette symbol designs also used for the new non-gender-specifying family emojis added in <a href="/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a>.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-17-4-emoji-changelog/">Learn more about this update.</a>

iOS 17.4

New emojis from Apple for 2023&nbsp;available as part of iOS 16.4, iPadOS 16.4, tvOS 16.4, watchOS 9.4, and macOS 13.3.

iOS 16.4

New emojis from Apple for 2022&nbsp;available as part of&nbsp;iOS 15.4, iPadOS 15.4, tvOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5, and macOS 12.3.

Released on 14&nbsp;March 2022, this was the first version of iOS to support the 112 new emojis in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>, including various multiple skin tone versions of the <a href="/handshake/">🤝 Handshake</a> emoji.

This Apple emoji update changed the appearance of the <a href="/face-with-hand-over-mouth/">🤭&nbsp;Face with Hand Over Mouth</a>&nbsp;emoji to be more consistent with the designs of other vendors, with this emoji&#39;s originaly design being given to the new <a href="/emoji-14.0/">🫢 Face with Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth</a>&nbsp;emoji.

Taking into account a series of additional&nbsp;<a href="/glossary/#non-rgi">non-RGI</a>&nbsp;<a href="/handshake/">🤝 Handshake</a> emoji sequences, there are 123 new emojis in this release.

iOS 15.4

Released on 2021-05-24, this update changed the appearance&nbsp;of the various&nbsp;<a href="/person-climbing/">🧗 Person Climbing</a> emojis to have the person wearing a safety helmet.

iOS 14.6

New emojis from Apple for 2021 available as part of&nbsp;iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, tvOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4, and macOS 11.3.

This Apple emoji update changed the appearance of the&nbsp;<a href="/syringe/">💉&nbsp;Syringe</a>&nbsp;emoji&nbsp;to remove the blood, and added mixed skin tone support to&nbsp;<a href="/kiss/">💏&nbsp;Kiss</a> and <a href="/couple-with-heart/">💑&nbsp;Couple with Heart</a>.

Released on 26&nbsp;April 2021, this was the first version of iOS to support the 217 new emojis in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>. Taking into account <a href="/glossary/#non-rgi">non-RGI</a> emoji sequences, there&nbsp;there are 669 new emojis in this release.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-14-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

iOS 14.5

New emojis from Apple for 2020 released on iOS 14.2, iPad OS 14.2 and macOS 11 Big Sur.&nbsp;Emoji additions included&nbsp;<a href="/bubble-tea/">🧋 Bubble Tea</a>, <a href="/transgender-flag/">🏳️&zwj;⚧️ Transgender Flag</a>, <a href="/pinched-fingers/">🤌 Pinched Fingers</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/smiling-face-with-tear/">🥲 Smiling Face with Tear.</a>

This Apple emoji update changed the appearance of&nbsp;<a href="/person-with-veil/">👰 Person With Veil </a>and&nbsp;<a href="/person-in-tuxedo/">🤵 Person in Tuxedo</a> to gender neutral designs, with new sequences added to support gender-specific options for women or men. This software version also changed the appearance of&nbsp;<a href="/face-with-medical-mask/">😷 Face with Medical Mask</a> to smile.

Released on 5&nbsp;November 2020, this was the first version of iOS to support the 117 new emojis in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-14-2-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

iOS 14.2

A minor update which fixed a bug where <a href="/apple/ios-13.3/men-holding-hands-medium-skin-tone-medium-dark-skin-tone/">one variation of men holding hands</a>&nbsp;previously showed <a href="/apple/ios-13.2/men-holding-hands-medium-skin-tone-medium-dark-skin-tone/">an incorrect set of skin tones</a>. This change applies to iOS 13.3, iPadOS 13.3 and macOS 10.15.2.

🗓️ Spiral Calendar on Apple iOS 4.0

🗓️ Spiral Calendar on Apple iOS 4.0

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