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A fishing&nbsp;rod (pole) with a fish caught on the end.

Fishing Pole and Fish

A slice of Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narutomaki">narutomaki</a>, a ridged fishcake of processed whitefish with an iconic pink&nbsp;<a href="/cyclone/">swirl</a>, often served in <a href="/steaming-bowl/">ramen</a> or <a href="/oden/">oden</a>. Thanks to its distinct swirl, may be used for flair.

Fish Cake with Swirl Design

A small rowboat suitable for&nbsp;a small number of people.&nbsp;<a href="/couple-with-heart/" title="💑 Couple With Heart">Couples</a>&nbsp;or <a href="/family/" title="👪 Family">families</a> sometimes hire these as an activity on calm waters.

Rowboat

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 common fish, as swims in the water. Depicted as a generic, light-blue fish, often with a white underside, in full profile facing left, with fins and prominent gill cover.

May be used to represent a variety of other fish (freshwater or saltwater), <a href="/fishing-pole/">fishing</a>, metaphorical senses of fish, and fish as food, as consumed in the form of <a href="/sushi/">🍣 Sushi</a>. May be used to represent <a href="/pisces/">♓ Pisces</a>, the Fish, in the Western zodiac.

Not to be confused with <a href="/tropical-fish/">🐠 Tropical Fish</a> or <a href="/blowfish/">🐡 Blowfish</a>, though their applications may overlap. Vendors implement a similar design to the fish caught on the <a href="/fishing-pole/">🎣 Fishing Pole</a>.

Microsoft&rsquo;s fish was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/fish/">previously</a> yellow.

Fish

A tropical fish, as swims in the warm waters of a coral reef or is kept as a pet in an aquarium. Depicted as a brightly colored fish in full profile facing left, with slender fins. Often shown as a blue-and-yellow fish with stripes, as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterophyllum">angelfish</a>.

May be used to represent a variety of fish (saltwater or freshwater), <a href="/fishing-pole/">fishing</a>, metaphorical senses of fish, and fish as food, as consumed in the form of <a href="/sushi/">🍣 Sushi</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/fish/">🐟 Fish</a> or <a href="/blowfish/">🐡 Blowfish</a>, though their applications may overlap. See also <a href="/fishing-pole/">🎣 Fishing Pole</a>.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/tropical-fish/">Google</a> and <a href="/facebook/1.0/tropical-fish/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> fish previously resembled a goldfish, while&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/tropical-fish/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;was black and white.&nbsp;Microsoft&rsquo;s fish was previously&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/tropical-fish/">orange with white stripes</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/tropical-fish/">yellow and blue</a> before that.

Tropical Fish

A blowfish (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraodontidae">puffer</a>), which puffs up and becomes spiky when alarmed. Depicted as an orange or brown blowfish in full profile facing left, with small fins, a white underside, and a round, spiky body, as if inflated.

Called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu">fugu</a> in Japan, where it&rsquo;s consumed as a delicacy.

May be to represent a variety of fish (saltwater or freshwater), <a href="/fishing-pole/">fishing</a>, metaphorical senses of fish, and fish as food, as consumed in the form of <a href="/sushi/">🍣 Sushi</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/fish/">🐟 Fish</a> or <a href="/tropical-fish/">🐠 Tropical Fish</a>, though their applications may overlap. See also <a href="/fishing-pole/">🎣 Fishing Pole</a>.

Google&rsquo;s blowfish was <a href="/google/android-7.0/blowfish/">previously</a> blue, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/blowfish/">Microsoft&rsquo;s</a> yellow, and <a href="/facebook/1.0/blowfish/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> white.

Blowfish

A shark, a large, stealthy fish with many teeth. Generally depicted as a gray shark in full profile facing left, as a&nbsp;<a href="/dolphin/">tiger</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_shark">bull</a>, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_shark">great white shark</a> hunting in the water. Shown with a white underside and three gills, its pointed nose and teeth-lined mouth curving down to a sharp dorsal fin and long, pointed tail.

Not to be confused with <a href="/dolphin/">🐬 Dolphin</a>.

Shark

A prawn or shrimp breaded and deep-fried golden-brown. Known as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_prawn">ebi furai</a>&nbsp;in Japan but commonly called shrimp&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempura">tempura</a>&nbsp;and served in a&nbsp;<a href="/bento-box/" title="🍱 Bento Box">bento box</a>. Not to be confused with the&nbsp;<a href="/shrimp/">Shrimp</a>.

Fried Shrimp

Quack! A duck, a waterbird with webbed feet. Depicted as a male (drake) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallard">mallard</a> in full profile facing left, standing on its legs with gray and brown feathers, a yellow bill, and its distinctive green head.

May be consumed in the form of a <a href="/poultry-leg/">🍗 Poultry Leg</a>. Occasionally used as a substitute for the F-word, due to rhyming and Apple&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ducking">iPhone autocorrect</a>.

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/duck/">previously</a> featured a yellow rubber ducky.

Duck

A pole spiraled with red, white, and blue stripes, as spins out front of a <a href="/person-getting-haircut/">barbershop</a>. Commonly used for various content concerning haircutting and hairstyling.

May also be associated with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber's_pole#Use_in_prostitution">brothels</a> in parts of Asia.

Barber Pole

A whale, the massive marine mammal. Generally depicted as a light-blue whale in full profile facing left, with its tail curving down towards is huge mouth. Shown with a white, textured underside, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpback_whale">humpback</a> or&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale">blue whale</a>.

Not to be confused with the more cartoon-styled <a href="/spouting-whale/">🐳 Spouting Whale</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Apple and Google&#39;s whales have slightly open mouths, revealing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baleen">baleen</a>.

Whale

A dolphin, a sleek marine mammal known to be social and intelligent. Generally depicted as a light-blue dolphin with a white belly in full profile facing left, its short snout curving down to a prominent dorsal fin and tail, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottlenose_dolphin">bottlenose</a> dolphin leaping in the air.

May be used for various content concerning <a href="/person-swimming/">swimming</a>, oceans, <a href="/beach-with-umbrella/">beaches</a>, and summer fun. Not be confused with <a href="/shark/">🦈 Shark</a>.

WhatsApp and Facebook&rsquo;s dolphins are gray, as <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/dolphin/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/dolphin/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> previously were.

Dolphin

A gold or silver hook. Can be used to represent literal hooks like the kinds you use to crochet or catch fish.

Also use metaphorically to talk about boxing or punching, music (the catchy part of a song), or in phrases like hook me up, hook up,&nbsp;getting hooked (on something), or hook, line, and sinker.&nbsp;

Hook

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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.

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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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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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An animated subset of the licensable JoyPixels emoji set.

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.

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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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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 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>.

🎣 Fishing Pole on Apple iOS 8.3

🎣 Fishing Pole on Apple iOS 8.3

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